忘らるる憂き名はさても立ちにけり
心の内は思ひ分くとも
心の内は思ひ分くとも
- Roma-ji
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Wasuraruru ukina wa satemo tachinikeri kokoro no uchi wa omoiwakutomo
- English Translation
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The bitter rumor
that I have been forgotten
has spread all the same,
though within my heart I know
how little lay between us
- Meaning
- Even so, the painful rumor that I have been forgotten has spread, though in my heart I know well how little there was between us.
- Commentary
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Book Twelve Love Poems II 771
Headnote: "Sent to a man by whom she had been forgotten before they had grown close"
Sent to a man by whom she had been forgotten before they had grown at all close. The bitter rumor that I was forgotten has risen all the same, she says, though in my heart I know the truth. She protests to him that, though they never became intimate, only the shameful rumor of a woman cast aside has spread.
The author, "Daughter of Ōe no Korenobu," was the daughter of Ōe no Korenobu. Little is known of her career.
Poems 728 and 729 are also women's poems on rumors that have arisen. Where 728 pays no heed to a groundless rumor and 729 regrets a rumor that has risen, this poem laments a painful rumor that has spread though there was no deep bond.
First line, "wasuraruru": "ruru" is the attributive of the passive "ru," "of being forgotten."
Second line, "ukina wa satemo": "ukina" is a painful rumor, a disgrace, and "satemo" means "all the same."
Third line, "tachinikeri": "ni" is the continuative of the perfective "nu" and "keri" exclamatory, "it has risen!" The poem pauses here and stands in inverted order with the lines that follow.
Fourth line, "kokoro no uchi wa": "within my heart."
Fifth line, "omoiwakutomo": "omoiwaku" is to discern and understand, and "tomo" is adversative, "though I know there was no deep bond."
- Author
- Daughter of Ōe no Korenobu
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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