Asamashi ya osauru sode no shitakukuru namida no sue o hito ya mitsuran - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

あさましや抑ふる袖の下くくる
涙の末を人や見つらん

Roma-ji: Asamashi ya osauru sode no shitakukuru namida no sue o hito ya mitsuran
English Translation: How shameful it is!
Slipping out beneath the sleeve
I press against my eyes,
the tears go trickling on: have they
been seen where they end up?
Meaning: How mortifying! My tears slip out from under the sleeve I press to my eyes and trickle away. Has someone seen where they have run?
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 693

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'Hidden Love' for the hundred-poem sequences of the Regent when he was Minister of the Right"
Composed on the topic "Hidden love" for the hundred-poem sequences of Kujō Kanezane, Regent at the time this anthology was compiled, when he was still Minister of the Right. How shameful, he says; have others seen the trickle of tears slipping from under the sleeve I press to my eyes? He vividly portrays the danger of hidden love: though he presses his sleeve to his eyes to hide his tears, they slip out from beneath it and run on, and he is flustered that someone may have seen. The sequences are those of the Minister of the Right's house in 1178.
The author, "Yorimasa, Former Provisional Master of the Capital Office of the Right," is Minamoto no Yorimasa. The son of Minamoto no Nakamasa, Head of the Hyōgo Office, he was a warrior and poet who served as Provisional Master of the Capital Office of the Right. He later raised troops with Prince Mochihito against the Taira and died in defeat at Uji.
The next poem, 694, is also a poem on hidden love from the same sequences, so that two poems on tears that show themselves against the will to hide stand together.

First line, "asamashi ya": "how dismaying, how shameful." The poem pauses here.
Second line, "osauru sode no": "of the sleeve that presses back my tears."
Third line, "shitakukuru": "kukuru" means to slip out beneath, "slipping out from under the sleeve."
Fourth line, "namida no sue o": "sue" is where a stream ends up, "where my tears run."
Fifth line, "hito ya mitsuran": "ya" is an interrogative binding particle, "tsu" perfective, and "ran" the attributive of the present conjectural "ramu," "have others seen it?"
Author: Minamoto no Yorimasa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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