わたつ海の深き心はありながら
うらみられぬるものにぞありける
うらみられぬるものにぞありける
- Roma-ji
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Watatsumi no fukaki kokoro wa arinagara uramirarenuru mono ni zo arikeru
- English Translation
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A heart as deep as
the ocean of the sea god
though I hold within,
it seems that I am fated
to be resented still.
- Meaning
- Though my heart runs as deep as the ocean, it seems that I am still to be resented.
- Commentary
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Book Fifteen Love Poems V 983
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem says: though my heart is as deep as the sea, I turn out to be resented all the same. Through the depth of the sea and the pun on "urami," gazing at the bay, it laments being resented despite loving the other deeply.
Where the preceding poems sing of the heart of one who resents, this one sings of the grief of one who is resented, presenting the reversed roles of resenter and resented.
First line, "watatsumi no," means "of the sea," with "watatsumi" originally the god of the sea and by extension the sea itself.
Second line, "fukaki kokoro wa," means "a deep heart," overlaid with the depth of the sea in the first line.
Third line, "arinagara," means "even while having."
Fourth line, "uramirarenuru," means "to be resented," with "urami" a pivot word joining "urami," gazing at the bay, an association with the sea, and "urami," resentment. "Rare" is the continuative of the passive "raru." Where the preceding poem, 982, sings of the one who resents with "urami ya semashi," this poem sings of the one resented.
Final line, "mono ni zo arikeru," means "so it turns out," concluding with "keru," the attributive of the exclamatory "keri," in answer to the binding particle "zo." It is the same as the final lines of 942 and 977 in this book, "mono ni zo arikeru."
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Shui Wakashu
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