Kanashisa ni soete mo mono no kanashiki wa wakare no uchi no wakare narikeri - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

悲しさに添へても物の悲しきは
別れのうちの別れなりけり

Roma-ji: Kanashisa ni soete mo mono no kanashiki wa wakare no uchi no wakare narikeri
English Translation: What brings more grief
still, added on to all
the grief I feel,
is this parting that has come
within our parting
Meaning: Added to my sorrow, what is sadder still is this parting that has come within our parting from the dead.
Commentary: Book Nine Poems of Lament 561

Headnote: "Composed when people grieved at parting on the day the princesses moved to Jōtōmon'in's residence near the end of the forty-nine days after the Empress also passed away in the Ninth Month of the year Retired Emperor Go-Ichijō died in the Fourth Month"
In the year Retired Emperor Go-Ichijō died in the Fourth Month, Empress Ishi also died in the Ninth Month. Near the end of the forty-nine days of mourning, on the day the princesses they left moved to their grandmother Jōtōmon'in, those who had served them grieved at parting, and this poem was composed then. Added to my grief, what is sadder still is this parting within a parting, the poet says. To the grief of losing the emperor and empress is added a parting from the living princesses, and the repetition of "kanashi" and "wakare" expresses sorrow piled on sorrow. Go-Ichijō and Empress Ishi both died in 1036.
The author, "Koben no Myōki," seems to have been a lady-in-waiting to Empress Ishi, but nothing more is known of her life.
The opening poem, 545, laments a parting by death with "aware wakare no," and this poem sings of a parting within that parting. The next poem, 562, also regrets at the end of the same year that the parting from the late emperor and empress is growing distant.

First line, "kanashisa ni": "to the grief" of losing the emperor and empress one after the other.
Second line, "soete mo": "adding still more."
Third line, "mono no kanashiki wa": "what is sad," repeating the word of "kanashisa" in the first line.
Fourth line, "wakare no uchi no": "within the parting" by death from the emperor and empress.
Fifth line, "wakare narikeri": "keri" expresses realization, "it is the parting from the princesses." Repeating "wakare" in the fourth and fifth lines shows partings layered on partings.
Author: Koben no Myōki
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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