Kimi kouru mi wa ōzora ni aranedomo tsukihi o ōku sugushitsuru kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

君恋ふる身は大空にあらねども
月日を多く過ぐしつるかな

Roma-ji: Kimi kouru mi wa ōzora ni aranedomo tsukihi o ōku sugushitsuru kana
English Translation: Though I who love you
am no great expanse of sky,
how many months and days,
how many moons and suns, have I
let go by in loving you
Meaning: I who love you am not the wide sky, and yet, like the sky through which the moon and sun go by, I have let so many months and days pass in loving you.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 675

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
Though I who love you am not the great sky, he says, I have passed so many months and days. Playing on the moon and sun that cross the sky, he says with wit that though he is no sky he has seen so many "moons and suns," months and days, go by, conveying the long years he has loved without meeting her.
The author, "Former Middle Counselor Korefusa," is Fujiwara no Korefusa. The son of Provisional Middle Counselor Fujiwara no Yukitsune and grandson of Fujiwara no Yukinari, he rose to Provisional Middle Counselor and was known as a master calligrapher.
Poem 690 of this book also opens with "kimi kouru."

First line, "kimi kouru": "loving you." It is the same as the first line of 690.
Second line, "mi wa ōzora ni": "I am the great sky."
Third line, "aranedomo": "ne" is the perfective of the negative "zu," and with "domo" it becomes adversative, "though I am not."
Fourth line, "tsukihi o ōku": "tsukihi" overlays the moon and sun crossing the sky and the months and days of time, a related word to "ōzora," "great sky," in the second line.
Fifth line, "sugushitsuru kana": "tsuru" is the attributive of the perfective "tsu," and "kana" is exclamatory, "how many I have let pass."
Author: Fujiwara no Korefusa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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