Akade yuku haru no wakare ni inishie no hito ya uzuki to iihajimeken - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

飽かで行く春の別れにいにしへの
人やうづきと言ひはじめけん

Roma-ji: Akade yuku haru no wakare ni inishie no hito ya uzuki to iihajimeken
English Translation: Is it from parting
with the spring that slips away
before we've had our fill
that the people of the past
first named this month Uzuki?
Meaning: Was it the pain of parting from the spring, which leaves before we have had our fill of it, that made people long ago begin to call this month Uzuki, with its echo of sorrow?
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 138

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on the beginning of summer when presenting a hundred-poem sequence to Retired Emperor Sutoku"
Composed on "the beginning of summer" for a hundred-poem sequence presented to Retired Emperor Sutoku. Because parting from the spring, which slips away before one has had enough of it, is so painful, the poet wonders whether people of old began to call the Fourth Month "uzuki" for that reason. Echoing "ushi," sorrowful, in the "u" of "uzuki," the poem wittily traces the month's name to the sorrow of parting from spring. Following two poems on the change of robes, it takes up the name of summer's first month.
The author, "Fujiwara no Sanekiyo Ason," was a courtier of the late Heian period and one of the poets of Retired Emperor Sutoku's Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequence. Little else is known of his life.

First line, "akade yuku": the negative conjunctive "de" gives "departing before we are satisfied."
Second line, "haru no wakare ni": "at the pain of parting from spring," looking back from the summer book on the farewell to spring lamented near the end of Book Two.
Third line, "inishie no": modifies "hito" in the fourth line: "of long ago."
Fourth line, "hito ya uzuki to": the interrogative "ya" links with "ken" in the last line. "Uzuki," the old name for the Fourth Month, is a pivot word carrying "u," sorrow.
Fifth line, "iihajimeken": "ken" is the attributive of past conjecture "kemu," closing with "ya": "did they begin to call it so?" It guesses at the origin of the month's name.
Author: Fujiwara no Sanekiyo
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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