Namida ni ya kuchihatenamashi karagoromo sode no hiruma to tanomezariseba - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

涙にや朽ち果てなまし唐衣
袖のひるまと頼めざりせば

Roma-ji: Namida ni ya kuchihatenamashi karagoromo sode no hiruma to tanomezariseba
English Translation: Would it have rotted
away with tears by now,
my Chinese robe,
had you not promised me the daytime,
when my sleeves have time to dry?
Meaning: Would my Chinese robe have rotted away with tears by now, had you not given me hope of meeting in the daytime, when my sleeves have time to dry?
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 820

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'Love pledged for the daytime'"
Composed on the topic "love pledged for the daytime," a promise to meet by day. Would it have rotted away with tears, my Chinese robe, he says, had you not given me hope of the daytime when sleeves can dry? The sleeves wet with tears night after night have a time to dry, relying on the promise to meet by day, and so are spared from rotting away, a conceit that skillfully works in the "daytime" of the topic by pivoting between "hiruma," the time sleeves dry, and "hiruma," daytime.
The author, "Nakahara no Kiyoshige," was an official and poet of the late Heian period. Little is known of his career.
Poem 817 of this book called on the robe to rot away with tears, "namida ni kuchine karagoromo," while this one uses the same "tears," "rot" and "Chinese robe" to sing of a robe spared from rotting by trust in a promise, forming a reversed picture.

First line, "namida ni ya": "ya" is an interrogative particle that binds with "mashi" in the second line. Like "namida ni kuchine" in the second line of 817 of this book, it speaks of a robe rotting with tears.
Second line, "kuchihatenamashi": "na" is the irrealis form of the perfective "nu" and "mashi" the counterfactual auxiliary, "would it have rotted away?", answering "seba" in the last line. The poem pauses here and stands in inverted order with the lower half.
Third line, "karagoromo": an elegant word for a robe, the same as in the third line of 817 of this book.
Fourth line, "sode no hiruma to": "hiruma" pivots between "hiru ma," the time sleeves dry, and "hiruma," the daytime of the topic.
Fifth line, "tanomezariseba": "tanome" in its lower-bigrade use means to give hope, "zari" is negative, "se" the irrealis form of the past "ki," and "ba" conditional, "had you not given me hope," forming a counterfactual with "mashi" in the second line.
Author: Nakahara no Kiyoshige
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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