Kakitsukuru kokoro mie naru ato naredo mite mo shinobamu hito ya aru tote - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

書きつくる心見えなる跡なれど
見ても偲ばむ人やあるとて

Roma-ji: Kakitsukuru kokoro mie naru ato naredo mite mo shinobamu hito ya aru tote
English Translation: Though it is a hand
through which the heart that wrote it
shows all too plainly,
I set it down in case someone
seeing it might think of me.
Meaning: Though it is writing through which my clumsy heart shows plain, I set it down thinking someone might look at it and remember me.
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Congratulatory Poems 1200

Headnote: "Written at the end of a booklet someone had him copy"
The poet says that though the writing lays bare the clumsy heart of the writer, he sets it down in case someone might see it and remember him. The headnote shows it was written at the end of a booklet he had been asked to copy. While modestly owning the poorness of his hand, he leaves behind a feeling placed in the writing, that someone later seeing it might think of the one who wrote it.

First line, "kakitsukuru," means "that I write down."
Second line, "kokoro mie naru," means "through which the heart shows plain," speaking of the writer's clumsy heart showing in the hand.
Third line, "ato naredo," means "though it is writing," with "do" a concessive particle. It shares the word "ato" with the first line of the preceding poem, 1199, "ato mo naki."
Fourth line, "mite mo shinobamu," means "who would look and remember," with "mu" the attributive form of the conjectural auxiliary.
Final line, "hito ya aru tote," means "thinking there may be someone," with "ya" a question and "tote" giving the reason, which it states in inverted order.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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