Kokoro o zo tsukushihatetsuru hototogisu honomeku yoi no murasame no sora - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

心をぞ尽くし果てつる時鳥
ほのめく宵の村雨の空

Roma-ji: Kokoro o zo tsukushihatetsuru hototogisu honomeku yoi no murasame no sora
English Translation: I have worn my heart
out entirely, O cuckoo,
straining for your voice
faintly heard in the evening
sky of passing showers
Meaning: I have worn out my heart entirely, straining after the cuckoo heard so faintly in the evening sky of passing showers.
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 167

Headnote: "Composed on the cuckoo"
Composed on "the cuckoo." In the evening sky of passing showers the cuckoo seemed to call faintly, but its voice was lost in the sound of the rain, and in straining to catch it the poet has worn out his heart entirely. With this richly evocative scene of a faint voice melting into a sky of showers, the cuckoo sequence comes to a close.
The author, "Provisional Middle Counselor Nagakata," is Fujiwara no Nagakata, son of Provisional Middle Counselor Fujiwara no Akinaga, who rose to Provisional Middle Counselor. His mother was a daughter of Fujiwara no Toshitada, making him a nephew of the compiler Fujiwara no Shunzei.

First line, "kokoro o zo": the emphatic "zo" links with "tsuru" in the second line.
Second line, "tsukushihatetsuru": "hatsu" means to do completely and "tsuru" is the attributive of the perfective "tsu," closing with "zo": "I have used up my heart." The poem pauses here. "Kokoro mo tsukinu" in 156 of this book likewise tells of a heart worn out by thoughts of the cuckoo.
Third line, "hototogisu": the one whose voice is faintly heard in the fourth line.
Fourth line, "honomeku yoi no": "honomeku" means a voice heard faintly.
Fifth line, "murasame no sora": ends on a noun, a sky of passing showers. The cuckoo sequence ends here, and poems on irises follow. Poem 173 of this book also depicts showers in the evening.
Author: Fujiwara no Nagakata
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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