Koi o nomi Sugata no ike ni mikusa ite sumade yaminan na koso oshikere - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

恋をのみすがたの池にみ草ゐて
すまでやみなん名こそ惜しけれ

Roma-ji: Koi o nomi Sugata no ike ni mikusa ite sumade yaminan na koso oshikere
English Translation: Doing naught but love,
like Sugata Pond where weeds
cover the water,
shall it end, never clearing,
it is my name I regret
Meaning: Doing nothing but love, like Sugata Pond overgrown with water weeds and never clear, shall it end without our ever living together? It is the name left behind that I regret.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 858

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a love poem when presenting hundred-poem sequences to Retired Emperor Sutoku"
Like the preceding poem, it is a love poem from the Kyūan Hyakushu. Doing nothing but love, she says, like Sugata Pond where water weeds grow and the water is never clear, shall it end without our living together; it is my name I regret. In the pond covered with water weeds and never clear, she sees a love about to end without union, and expresses regret that only rumor should remain while love goes unfulfilled.
The author, "Taikenmon'in no Aki," was a lady-in-waiting who served Taikenmon'in. She composed poems as one of the poets of the Kyūan Hyakushu.
The love poems from the Kyūan Hyakushu presented to Retired Emperor Sutoku continue from this poem through 860 and form a sequence. Like the preceding poem, 857, it begins "koi o nomi" and pivots a place name with "doing" love, so that the two poems form a pair. Where the preceding poem sings of exchanging the self, this one sings of regret for one's name.

First line, "koi o nomi": "nothing but love." It is the same first line as the preceding poem, 857.
Second line, "Sugata no ike ni": "Sugata no ike" is Sugata Pond, and its "su" pivots with "koi o nomi su," "doing nothing but love."
Third line, "mikusa ite": "mikusa" means water weeds, and "iru" means to grow and cover, "water weeds growing."
Fourth line, "sumade yaminan": "sumade" pivots between the pond water "not clearing" and the lovers "not living together." "Ya" is an interrogative particle that binds with the attributive "nan," "shall it end." The poem pauses here.
Fifth line, "na koso oshikere": "na" is one's name, rumor. "Koso" is an emphatic particle that binds with the perfective "oshikere." Where the last line of the preceding poem sings of the "self," this one closes on the "name."
Author: Taikenmon-in no Aki
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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