Mishi yume no samenu yagate no utsutsu nite kyō to tanomeshi kure o mataba ya - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

見し夢の覚めぬやがての現にて
今日と頼めし暮を待たばや

Roma-ji: Mishi yume no samenu yagate no utsutsu nite kyō to tanomeshi kure o mataba ya
English Translation: The dream that I saw,
unbroken, just as it was,
turned to waking life—
the dusk you promised me for today,
how I would wait for it
Meaning: If only the dream I saw would stay unbroken and become waking life, so that I might wait for the dusk you promised me for today.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 835

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'Love pledged in a dream'"
Composed on the topic "love pledged in a dream." Would that the dream I saw, unbroken, became reality, she says, and I could wait for the evening you promised me for today. In the dream her beloved promised to meet her this very evening, and she wishes that the dream would not end but turn straight into reality, so that she might wait for the promised dusk, a fragile hope.
The author, "Kojijū of the Grand Empress Dowager's household," was the daughter of Ki no Mitsukiyo, Superintendent of the Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine. She served Emperor Nijō and later Grand Empress Dowager Fujiwara no Masaruko, and was called "Kojijū of the Waiting Evening" for a poem on waiting through the evening for a lover.
Poem 810 of this book, on the same topic, "love pledged in a dream," answers this poem in wishing the dream's pledge were real. As a poem of waiting for dusk, it also echoes "kyō no kure zo hisashiki" in 797 of this book.

First line, "mishi yume no": "shi" is the attributive of the past "ki," "the dream I saw."
Second line, "samenu yagate no": "nu" is the attributive of the negative "zu," and "yagate" means "just as it is," "unbroken, just as it was."
Third line, "utsutsu nite": "utsutsu" is reality, "becoming reality." Like "utsutsu nariseba" in the last line of 810 of this book, it wishes a dream's pledge to come true.
Fourth line, "kyō to tanomeshi": "tanome" in its lower-bigrade use means to give hope, and "shi" is the attributive of the past "ki," "that you promised me for today" in the dream.
Fifth line, "kure o mataba ya": "baya" is a final particle of one's own wish, "how I would wait for that evening."
Author: Kojiju
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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