Yo to tomo ni ame furu yado no niwatazumi sumanu ni kage wa miyuru mono ka wa - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

世とともに雨降る宿の庭たづみ
すまぬにかげは見ゆるものかは

Roma-ji: Yo to tomo ni ame furu yado no niwatazumi sumanu ni kage wa miyuru mono ka wa
English Translation: In the garden pool
of this house where rain falls on
all the while I live,
since it's never clear, how then
could any bay be seen?
Meaning: In the puddles of this house where the rain is always falling, since the water never clears, how could any reflection be seen? With no one living here, how could a bay horse appear?
Commentary: Book Nineteen Miscellaneous Love Poems 1254

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When, on a rainy day, a servant familiar to her came to a woman whom a man had stopped visiting, saying he had come looking for a bay horse"
The poet asks whether any reflection could be seen in the garden puddles of a house where rain is always falling, since the water never clears. It is placed as a poem of the same occasion as the preceding poem, 1253, and likewise pivoting on "sumu," to clear and to live, and "kage," reflection and bay horse, it says that no bay horse could be seen at a house the man no longer lives in. "Yo to tomo ni ame furu," rain falling all the while, also carries her own life spent in tears since his visits stopped.

First line, "yo to tomo ni," means "all the while."
Second line, "ame furu yado no," means "of the house where rain falls," laying over it a life spent in tears. It shares the falling rain with the first line of the preceding poem, 1253, "ame furite."
Third line, "niwatazumi," means "the puddles" left on the ground by the rain.
Fourth line, "sumanu ni kage wa," is a pivot word: "suma" means the water "clearing" and someone "living" there, and "kage" means "reflection" and "bay" horse. It shares the same pivots with the fourth and final lines of the preceding poem, 1253.
Final line, "miyuru mono ka wa," means "how could it be seen," with "ka wa" a rhetorical question.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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