Araiso no iwa ni kudakuru nami nare ya tsurenaki hito ni kakuru kokoro wa - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

荒磯の岩に砕くる波なれや
つれなき人にかくる心は

Roma-ji: Araiso no iwa ni kudakuru nami nare ya tsurenaki hito ni kakuru kokoro wa
English Translation: Is it like the waves
breaking on the rugged rocks
of the stormy shore,
this heart that I have flung upon
one so cold and unmoved?
Meaning: Is it a wave that shatters on the rocks of a wild shore, this heart of mine that I keep flinging at one who is so cold to me?
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 653

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a love poem when hundred-poem sequences were presented"
Like the preceding poem, a love poem from the Kyūan sequences. Is it a wave breaking on the rocks of a wild shore, she asks, this heart I cast upon one so cold? She likens her heart, which reaches out to an unfeeling lover and is shattered, to the waves that break on rocks that never move however often they strike. "Kakuru" in the last line, "to set one's heart upon," echoes the waves dashing against the rocks.
The author, "Horikawa of Taikenmon'in," was the daughter of Minamoto no Akinaka, Head of the Office of Divinities. She served Taikenmon'in Shōshi, mother of Emperor Sutoku, and was celebrated as a woman poet of the court. She has a poem in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
The next poem, 654, is by her younger sister; this poem sings of waves breaking on rocks and the next of a hidden stream flowing among rocks, both voicing love through water against stone.

First line, "araiso no": "of the rugged shore where waves crash."
Second line, "iwa ni kudakuru": "kudakuru" is the attributive of "kudaku," "breaking against the rocks," overlaid with a heart that breaks. It answers "iwama yuku" in the first line of the next poem, both singing of water against rocks.
Third line, "nami nare ya": "nare ya" is the perfective of the copula "nari" with the binding particle "ya," "is it a wave?" The poem pauses here and stands in inverted order with the lines that follow.
Fourth line, "tsurenaki hito ni": "tsurenashi" means cold, "upon one who does not answer my love."
Fifth line, "kakuru kokoro wa": "kakuru" means to set one's heart on someone, echoing the waves dashing against the rocks.
Author: Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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