Kesa towanu tsurasa ni mono wa omoishire ware mo sa koso wa uramikaneshika - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

今朝問はぬつらさにものは思ひ知れ
我もさこそは恨みかねしか

Roma-ji: Kesa towanu tsurasa ni mono wa omoishire ware mo sa koso wa uramikaneshika
English Translation: From the pain of
no word from me this morning
learn what longing is:
I too, in just the same way,
could hardly bear my resentment
Meaning: Learn what love's longing is from the pain of hearing nothing from me this morning; I too, in just that way, could hardly bear my resentment.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 798

Headnote: "Sent in the evening, in the same reign, to a lady who had come up to the palace secretly for the first time, when His Majesty had been kept busy with the morning's affairs of state until the day grew late"
Sent, like the preceding poem in Go-Shirakawa's reign, to a lady who had secretly come up to the palace for the first time, when the morning's affairs of state kept him from sending his morning-after letter until evening. Learn what longing is, he says, from the pain of my not writing this morning; I too could hardly bear my resentment so. Offering no excuse for his late letter, he playfully draws her near: let the pain of waiting teach you love's longing, for I too have been yearning for you and resenting you.
"His Majesty the Retired Emperor" refers to poems by Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa, who commanded the compilation of this anthology. The fourth son of Emperor Toba, he reigned as the seventy-seventh emperor and after abdicating long ruled as cloistered emperor. He loved imayō songs and compiled the Ryōjin Hishō.
Where the preceding poem waits impatiently from the morning after for this day's dusk, this one is sent at dusk after keeping her waiting for his letter, so that the one who waits and the one who keeps waiting are reversed.

First line, "kesa towanu": "tou" is to visit or send word, "not writing this morning," the delay of the letter that should follow a night together.
Second line, "tsurasa ni mono wa": "tsurasa" is the pain of waiting for word, and "mono" is love's longing.
Third line, "omoishire": the imperative, "learn it to the bone." The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "ware mo sa koso wa": "sa" means "so," and "koso" is an emphatic particle that binds with "shika" in the last line.
Fifth line, "uramikaneshika": "kanu" means to be unable to bear, and "shika" is the realized form of the past "ki," concluding "koso," "I could hardly bear my resentment."
Author: Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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