Wasuru na yo yoyo no chigiri o Sugawara ya Fushimi no sato no ariake no sora - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

忘るなよ世々の契りを菅原や
ふしみの里の有明の空

Roma-ji: Wasuru na yo yoyo no chigiri o Sugawara ya Fushimi no sato no ariake no sora
English Translation: Do not forget them,
our vows through lifetimes, there
at Sugawara,
in the village of Fushimi,
the dawn sky we lay and saw
Meaning: Do not forget our vows through lifetimes, nor the dawn sky over the village of Fushimi at Sugawara, which we saw as we lay together.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 839

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a poem on love the morning after when, as Minister of the Right, I had others compose hundred-poem sequences"
Composed, like the preceding poem, on the topic "love the morning after" for the hundred-poem sequences Fujiwara no Kanezane had others compose when he was Minister of the Right. Do not forget, he says, our vows through lifetimes, the dawn sky over the village of Fushimi at Sugawara. Pivoting the name of the village of Fushimi at Sugawara, a famed place in Yamato, with "fushi mi," "lying together and seeing," he asks at the morning's parting that she not forget, along with the dawn sky they saw while lying together, a pledge to last into lives to come, praying for an eternal bond.
The author, "Shunzei, Master of the Empress Dowager's Household," was the son of Provisional Middle Counselor Fujiwara no Toshitada. He served as Master of the Empress Dowager's Household, later took the tonsure under the name Shakua, and compiled this anthology at the command of Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa.
This poem closes the third book of love. Poem 779 at the end of Book Twelve is also by the compiler Shunzei, so that the second and third books of love both close with poems by the compiler. And where 780 at the head of this book sang of vows broken, "chigirikoshi koto no tagau zo tanomoshiki," this final poem prays that the vows of lifetimes not be forgotten, so that the beginning and end of the book answer each other through the word "vow." It is a morning-after poem from the same sequences as the preceding poem and likewise places the dawn in its last line.

First line, "wasuru na yo": "na" is a prohibitive particle and "yo" a particle of address, "do not forget." The poem pauses here and stands in inverted order with the lines that follow.
Second line, "yoyo no chigiri o": "yoyo" spans many lifetimes, past, present and to come, "our vows through lifetimes." It answers "chigirikoshi" in the first line of 780 at the head of the book through the word "chigiri."
Third line, "Sugawara ya": "Sugawara" is a place in Yamato where the village of Fushimi lies, and "ya" an exclamatory particle.
Fourth line, "Fushimi no sato no": "Fushimi" pivots between the place name and "fushi mi," "lying together and seeing."
Fifth line, "ariake no sora": the poem ends on a noun, the sky where the moon remains after daybreak. Like "ariake no tsuki" in the last line of the preceding poem, 838, it sings of the dawn, the hour of the morning's parting.
Author: Fujiwara no Shunzei
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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