Oshieoku katami o fukaku shinobanan mi wa aoumi no nami ni nagarenu - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

教へ置く形見を深く偲ばなん
身はあを海の波に流れぬ

Roma-ji: Oshieoku katami o fukaku shinobanan mi wa aoumi no nami ni nagarenu
English Translation: These things I teach you,
keep them deep as keepsakes,
remember me by them,
for I am swept away
on the waves of the blue sea
Meaning: Treasure deeply what I leave you as a keepsake of my teaching, for I myself am being carried away on the waves of the blue sea.
Commentary: Book Seven Parting Poems 494

Headnote: "Written at the end of a score when Minamoto no Korimori, who had served me for years and to whom I had taught the koto, came to see me off as far as Kawajiri when I was going to Tosa Province, and I taught him how to set the bridges for the secret piece of Seigaiha and gave him a score to that effect"
Minamoto no Korimori had served the poet for years and learned the koto from him; when the poet was going to Tosa Province, Korimori came to see him off as far as Kawajiri, so the poet taught him how to set the bridges for the secret piece of the gagaku work Seigaiha, and wrote this poem at the end of the score he gave him. In 1156 the poet was exiled to Tosa, implicated in his father's guilt in the Hōgen Disturbance. Cherish deeply the keepsake I leave you in this secret piece, he says, for I am carried away on the waves of the blue sea. Amid the grief of becoming an exile, he entrusts the way of music to his pupil.
The author, "the Lay Monk and Former Chancellor," is Fujiwara no Moronaga, son of Minister of the Left Fujiwara no Yorinaga. Pardoned in 1164, he returned to the capital and became Chancellor in 1177, but was dismissed in the coup of 1179, went down to Owari and took the tonsure. A master of the biwa and the koto, he was called Myōon'in.
This poem sings of a secret koto piece and the next, 495, of the familiar sound of Wang Zhaojun's instrument, so that two parting poems tied to the sound of music stand side by side.

First line, "oshieoku": "what I leave behind in teaching," the secret piece of Seigaiha.
Second line, "katami o fukaku": "katami" is a keepsake for remembering one who has parted, here the secret piece. "Fukaku," "deeply," is chosen in association with the "sea" of the fourth line.
Third line, "shinobanan": "nan" is a particle of wish directed at another, "please remember." The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "mi wa aoumi no": "aoumi" means both the blue sea and the title of the piece, Seigaiha, "Blue Sea Waves."
Fifth line, "nami ni nagarenu": the perfective "nu," "I am swept away on the waves." "Nagaru" carries the sense of exile, and "nami," "waves," also echoes Seigaiha.
Author: Fujiwara no Moronaga
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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