Asato akete nagame ya suran tanabata no akanu wakare no sora o koitsutsu - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

朝戸開けて眺めやすらん織女の
あかぬ別れの空を恋ひつつ

Roma-ji: Asato akete nagame ya suran tanabata no akanu wakare no sora o koitsutsu
English Translation: Opening your door
at dawn, do you gaze in thought,
longing for the sky
where the Weaver Star has made
her parting, still unfulfilled?
Meaning: This morning, do you too open your door and gaze lost in thought, longing for the sky where the Weaver Star parted from her love with so much longing left behind?
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Autumn Poems 1084

Headnote: "On the morning after Tanabata, sent to Mitsune"
The poet asks his friend Mitsune whether he too has opened his door this morning to gaze, longing for the sky where the Herdsman and the Weaver parted with such reluctance. The headnote shows it was sent to Mitsune on the morning after Tanabata. Feeling for the parting of the two stars, it lays over it his thoughts of a friend who must be gazing at the same sky. Mitsune is Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, who served with Tsurayuki as a compiler of the Kokinshū.
1094 in this book is likewise Tsurayuki's reply to a poem sent by Mitsune on the morning after Tanabata, so an exchange between the two men prompted by Tanabata is preserved in this book.
The author, written as "Tsurayuki," is Ki no Tsurayuki, the leading compiler of the Kokinshū, who wrote its kana preface and the Tosa Diary. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "asato akete," means "opening the door in the morning," a hypermetric line of six syllables. It calls to mind the morning after, when lovers who have spent the night together part.
Second line, "nagame ya suran," means "do you gaze lost in thought," with "ya" a questioning binding particle resolved by "ran," the attributive form of the auxiliary of present conjecture. The poem breaks here, and what he gazes for is given in the lower verse by inversion.
Third line, "tanabata no," written with the characters for the Weaver Star, means "of the Weaver Star."
Fourth line, "akanu wakare no," means "of the parting, still unfulfilled," sharing the same words with the second line of the preceding poem, 1083, "akanu wakare mo," and the fourth line of 1090 in this book, "akanu wakare o."
Final line, "sora o koitsutsu," means "longing for the sky," with "tsutsu" a particle of continuing action.
Author: Ki no Tsurayuki
Source: Shui Wakashu
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