Omoikane yume ni miyu ya to kaesazu wa ura sae sode wa nurasazaramashi - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思ひかね夢に見ゆやと返さずは
裏さへ袖は濡らさざらまし

Roma-ji: Omoikane yume ni miyu ya to kaesazu wa ura sae sode wa nurasazaramashi
English Translation: Unable to bear it,
hoping she might come in dreams,
had I not turned my robe,
even the lining of my sleeves
I would not have drenched
Meaning: Unable to bear my longing, I turned my robe inside out hoping to see her in a dream; had I not, I would not have drenched even the lining of my sleeves.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 828

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Unable to bear my longing, he says, had I not turned my robe inside out hoping to see her in a dream, I would not have wet even the lining of my sleeves. It draws on the folk belief that sleeping in a robe turned inside out lets one see the beloved in a dream, a device since the Kokinshū poem by Ono no Komachi, "When longing presses hard, I turn my robe of night inside out to wear it." Here it turns: because he reversed the robe, he has soaked not only the outside but even the lining with tears, conveying the depth of his longing.
The author, "Former Provisional Master of the Western Capital Office Yorimasa," is Minamoto no Yorimasa. The son of Minamoto no Nakamasa, Head of the Arsenal, he was a warrior and poet who served as Provisional Master of the Western Capital Office. He later raised troops under Prince Mochihito to overthrow the Taira and died in defeat at Uji.
Poem 814 of this book sings of a lining about to rot as one draws the robe over one's head to hide tears, answering this poem in wetting the "lining" of the robe with tears.

First line, "omoikane": "kanu" means unable to, "unable to bear my longing."
Second line, "yume ni miyu ya to": "ya" is an interrogative particle, "hoping she might appear in a dream."
Third line, "kaesazu wa": "kaesu" is to turn a robe inside out, and "zu wa" a condition, "had I not turned it." It draws on the belief that sleeping in a reversed robe lets one see the beloved in dreams.
Fourth line, "ura sae sode wa": "sae" is additive, "even the lining," not only the outside, bringing in "ura" through "kaesu" in the third line. Like "ura ya kuchinan" in the fourth line of 814 of this book, it sings of tears wetting a robe's lining.
Fifth line, "nurasazaramashi": "zara" is the irrealis form of the negative "zu" and "mashi" counterfactual, answering "zu wa" in the third line, "I would not have wet them."
Author: Minamoto no Yorimasa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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