Kurikaeshi kuyashiki mono wa kimi ni shimo omoiyoriken shizu no odamaki - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

繰り返し悔しきものは君にしも
思ひよりけんしづのをだまき

Roma-ji: Kurikaeshi kuyashiki mono wa kimi ni shimo omoiyoriken shizu no odamaki
English Translation: Again and again,
what I regret is that
on you of all people
my heart was twisted round like
shizu thread upon a spool
Meaning: What I regret again and again, like the thread wound round a spool of shizu cloth, is that my heart should have turned to you, of all people.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 829

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
What I regret again and again, he says, is that I should have set my heart on you of all people, like the spool of shizu thread. Overlaying the winding and twisting of thread on a spool with a love regretted over and over and a heart set on her, he expresses regret for having loved one so cold. It draws on the bond between "shizu no odamaki" and "kurikaeshi," again and again, seen in such poems as that in the Tales of Ise, "Like the spool of shizu thread wound again and again, if only there were a way to make the past the present."
The author, "Minamoto no Moromitsu," was the son of Major Counselor Minamoto no Moroyori. A poet of the Murakami Genji, he later took the tonsure under the name Shōren. He was the father of Kunaikyō, a lady poet who served Retired Emperor Go-Toba.
Poem 788 of this book also uses "shizu no odamaki" and sings of love's pain through the winding of thread on a spool, answering this poem.

First line, "kurikaeshi": "again and again," an associated word of winding the thread of the "odamaki" in the last line.
Second line, "kuyashiki mono wa": "what I regret."
Third line, "kimi ni shimo": "shimo" is an emphatic particle, "on you, of all people."
Fourth line, "omoiyoriken": "yori" pivots between "yoru," setting one's heart on, and "yoru," twisting thread, an associated word of the spool. "Ken" is the attributive of the past conjectural "kemu," "that I should have set my heart."
Fifth line, "shizu no odamaki": the poem ends on a noun, the spool wound with shizu thread, placing last the word that calls up "kurikaeshi" in the first line in a kind of inversion. It is the same phrase as the second line of 788 of this book.
Author: Minamoto no Moromitsu
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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