Utagawashi hoka ni wataseru fumi mireba ware ya todae ni naran to suran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

疑はしほかに渡せるふみ見れば
我やとだえにならんとすらん

Roma-ji: Utagawashi hoka ni wataseru fumi mireba ware ya todae ni naran to suran
English Translation: How suspicious it is!
Seeing the letter you would send
across to another,
am I, then, the one for whom
the bridge is soon to break?
Meaning: How suspicious! Seeing the letter you meant to pass to another, I wonder if it is I whose bridge of visits is about to break off.
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Congratulatory Poems 1202

Headnote: "When the Lay Regent was visiting her, on seeing a letter he was sending to another woman"
The poet suspects, on seeing a letter meant for another woman, that his visits to her are about to break off. The headnote shows it was composed when the Lay Regent, Fujiwara no Kaneie, was visiting her and she found a letter he meant to send to another woman. Pivoting on "fumi," letter and treading, and stringing the bridge words "watasu," to pass across, and "todae," a break, it sings of her anxiety and jealousy that her husband's heart has moved to another and his visits will cease. This incident is also recorded near the beginning of the Kagerō Diary. Following the "taenubeshi" of the stone bridge in the preceding poem, 1201, it sings of a bond breaking off, likened to a bridge.
The author, written as "Mother of Michitsuna, Master of the Crown Prince's Household," is the Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna. A daughter of Fujiwara no Tomoyasu, she became the wife of Fujiwara no Kaneie and bore Michitsuna. She wrote the Kagerō Diary and is known for her poem "nagekitsutsu" in the Hyakunin Isshu.

First line, "utagawashi," means "how suspicious," and the poem breaks after this first line on the adjective's final form.
Second line, "hoka ni wataseru," means "that you would pass to another," with "ru" the attributive form of the auxiliary "ri." "Watasu," to pass across, is an associated word of the bridge. It shares with the fourth line of 1199 in this book, "waga watashikoshi," the layering of sending letters over laying a bridge.
Third line, "fumi mireba," is a pivot word: "fumi" means a "letter" and "treading" a bridge. It shares the same line with the third line of 1199 in this book, "fumimireba."
Fourth line, "ware ya todae ni," means "am I to be the break," with the binding particle "ya" resolved by "ran" in the final line. "Todae," a break, as in a bridge cut off, is an associated word of the bridge.
Final line, "naran to suran," means "is it about to become," with "ran" the attributive form of the auxiliary of present conjecture.
Author: The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Source: Shui Wakashu
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