Wakarete mo kokoro hedatsu na tabigoromo ikue kasanaru yamaji nari tomo - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

別れても心隔つな旅衣
幾重重なる山路なりとも

Roma-ji: Wakarete mo kokoro hedatsu na tabigoromo ikue kasanaru yamaji nari tomo
English Translation: Though we part, keep not
your heart apart from mine,
as a traveler's robe
is layered fold on fold,
however many mountain roads
Meaning: Even though we part, do not set your heart apart from mine, though mountain roads may lie between us, layered fold upon fold like a traveler's robes.
Commentary: Book Seven Parting Poems 497

Headnote: "Composed on the theme of parting when composing a hundred-poem sequence"
Composed on the topic of parting for a hundred-poem sequence. Even if the mountain roads you cross lie layered fold upon fold like a traveler's robes, though we part, do not set your heart apart, the poet says. The traveler's robe leads into "kasanaru," "layered," contrasting the distance the mountains impose with hearts that long to stay joined. The poem closes the book of parting poems.
The author, "Fujiwara no Teika," was the son of Fujiwara no Shunzei, compiler of this anthology. He later compiled the Shin Kokin Wakashū and the Shin Chokusen Wakashū, and is said to have selected the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This poem closes the book of parting poems. The opening poem, 476, sends the traveler off with "kokoro bakari o" as guide, and this final poem closes the book with the plea "kokoro hedatsu na." Both sing of hearts that stay joined across distance, so the beginning and end of the book answer each other.

First line, "wakarete mo": "even though we part." Poem 490 of this book also opens with "wakarete mo."
Second line, "kokoro hedatsu na": the prohibitive "na," "do not set your heart apart." The poem pauses here. It answers "kokoro bakari o" in the book's opening poem, 476, through the word "kokoro."
Third line, "tabigoromo": the robe worn for travel, which leads into "kasanaru" in the fourth line, since robes are layered.
Fourth line, "ikue kasanaru": "layered fold upon fold," a word associated with the traveler's robe, describing the overlapping mountains that separate the two.
Fifth line, "yamaji nari tomo": the concessive "tomo," "even if they are mountain roads." By inversion it returns to "kokoro hedatsu na" in the second line and closes the book.
Author: Fujiwara no Teika
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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