Koto no ne ni kayoisomenuru kokoro kana matsu fuku kaze ni aranu mi naredo - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

琴の音に通ひ初めぬる心かな
松吹く風にあらぬ身なれど

Roma-ji: Koto no ne ni kayoisomenuru kokoro kana matsu fuku kaze ni aranu mi naredo
English Translation: To the koto's sound
my heart has begun to make
its way, though I am
not the wind that through the pines
blows and joins the koto's song
Meaning: My heart has already begun to find its way to the sound of your koto, though I am not the wind in the pines, which is said to blend with the koto's music.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 676

Headnote: "Composed when he heard a lady-in-waiting newly come to serve the Empress playing the koto"
Composed by the emperor on hearing a lady-in-waiting, newly come to serve the Empress, play the koto. My heart has begun to find its way to the koto's sound, he says, though I am not the wind in the pines. Drawing on the idea that the sound of the koto blends with the wind in the pines, he says that his heart, though he is no pine wind, has begun to reach toward the koto, gracefully conveying that he is drawn to the new lady who plays it. It draws on the Shūishū poem by the Ise Priestess Consort, "Koto no ne ni mine no matsukaze kayourashi izure no o yori shirabesomeken."
The author, "Emperor Nijō," was the first son of Emperor Go-Shirakawa and the seventy-eighth emperor. He loved poetry and often held poetry gatherings at the palace during his reign, but died at the age of twenty-three.
Together with "kayoiji" in 672 and "yume no kayoiji" in 677 of this book, it stands among poems that turn on "kayou," "to go back and forth."

First line, "koto no ne ni": "to the sound of the koto" played by the lady.
Second line, "kayoisomenuru": "kayou" means for the heart to go out to someone, "some" is the continuative of "somu," "to begin," and "nuru" the attributive of the perfective "nu," "has begun to go out." Like "kayoiji ni" in the third line of 672, it sings of "kayou."
Third line, "kokoro kana": "kana" is an exclamatory final particle. The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "matsu fuku kaze ni": "to the wind blowing through the pines," drawing on the old poem in which the koto and the pine wind blend.
Fifth line, "aranu mi naredo": "nare" is the perfective of the copula "nari," and with "do" it becomes adversative, "though I am not."
Author: Retired Emperor Nijō
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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