Shiotaruru Iseo no ama no sode dani mo hosu naru hima wa ari to koso kike - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

潮垂るる伊勢をの海人の袖だにも
干すなる暇はありとこそ聞け

Roma-ji: Shiotaruru Iseo no ama no sode dani mo hosu naru hima wa ari to koso kike
English Translation: Dripping with the brine,
the fishers of Ise—even
their sleeves, so I hear,
have times when they are dried,
so I have been told
Meaning: Even the sleeves of the fishermen of Ise, dripping with brine, have times when they can be dried, so I hear; yet mine, wet with tears, never do.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 815

Headnote: "Composed as a love poem when hundred-poem sequences were presented"
Composed as a love poem when hundred-poem sequences were presented; the sequences are the Kyūan Hundred-Poem Sequences presented to Retired Emperor Sutoku. Even the sleeves of the fisherfolk of Ise, dripping with brine, he says, have times to dry, so I hear. Even the sleeves of fisherfolk, always wet with seawater, have times when they are dried, yet his own sleeves, wet with love's tears, never have a moment to dry, a lament left unspoken.
The author, "Former Imperial Adviser Chikataka," is Fujiwara no Chikataka. The son of Fujiwara no Tamefusa, he rose to Imperial Adviser and was one of the poets of the Kyūan sequences.
From this poem to 817, poems on sleeves wet with tears follow, and the attitude toward tears shifts from these sleeves with no time to dry, to the next poem's sleeves no longer wrung out, to the Chinese robe left to rot in the poem after.

First line, "shiotaruru": "dripping with brine," which also suggests being wet with tears.
Second line, "Iseo no ama no": "Iseo" are the men of the sea of Ise, "of the fisherfolk of Ise."
Third line, "sode dani mo": "dani" names a lesser thing to imply a greater, "even the sleeves" of the fisherfolk, implicitly set against his own tear-wet sleeves.
Fourth line, "hosu naru hima wa": "naru" is the attributive of "nari" expressing hearsay, "the time to dry them, they say."
Fifth line, "ari to koso kike": "koso" is emphatic and binds with the realized form "kike," "so I hear there is," with an adversative undertone implying that his own sleeves never have time to dry.
Author: Fujiwara no Chikataka
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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