Chigiri areba kabane naredomo ainuru o ware o ba tare ka towan to suran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

契りあれば屍なれども逢ひぬるを
我をば誰か訪はんとすらん

Roma-ji: Chigiri areba kabane naredomo ainuru o ware o ba tare ka towan to suran
English Translation: Since there was a bond,
though it is but a corpse,
it has met someone;
as for me, who will there be
to come and mourn for me?
Meaning: Because there was a bond, this dead man, though only a corpse, has met one who mourns him. As for me, who will come to mourn me?
Commentary: Book Twenty Lament Poems 1328

Headnote: "On seeing, in a painting at Chūren's chamber at Nanzan, a priest looking at a dead man and weeping"
The poet says that because of a bond the dead man has met someone even as a corpse, and asks who will come to mourn him. The headnote shows it was composed on seeing a painting at Chūren's chamber at Nanzan of a priest weeping as he looks at a dead man. The dead man in the painting, through a bond from a former life, met a priest who weeps for him even after death, but who will come for the poet when he dies? He turns his thoughts to his own end.
The author, Minamoto no Sukekata, was a son of the Minister of the Left Minamoto no Shigenobu.

First line, "chigiri areba," means "since there was a bond" from a former life, with "ba" after the perfective form expressing cause.
Second line, "kabane naredomo," means "though it is a corpse," the dead man in the painting.
Third line, "ainuru o," means "has met someone, yet," with "nuru" the attributive form of the perfective "nu" and "o" a concessive particle.
Fourth line, "ware o ba tare ka," means "me, who," with the binding particle "ka" resolved by the attributive "ran" in the final line.
Final line, "towan to suran," means "will come to mourn," with "ran" the auxiliary of present conjecture.
Author: Minamoto no Sukekata
Source: Shui Wakashu
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