Au koto no arishi tokoro shi kawarazu wa kokoro o dani mo yaramashi mono o - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

逢ふことのありし所し変はらずは
心をだにもやらましものを

Roma-ji: Au koto no arishi tokoro shi kawarazu wa kokoro o dani mo yaramashi mono o
English Translation: If the place we met,
the very place where we met,
had not changed at all,
at least my heart, if nothing more,
I would send to you there
Meaning: If only the place where once we met had not changed, I could at least send my heart to you there.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 882

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'love whose dwelling is not told'"
This poem was composed on the topic "love whose dwelling is not told," a love in which the beloved will not say where she lives. If the place where we met had not changed, he says, I would at least send my heart. Because she has moved and will not let him know where, there is nowhere to send not only himself but even his heart, and he laments this through the counterfactual.
The author, "Former Middle Counselor Masayori," was Minamoto no Masayori. Of the Murakami Genji, he rose to Provisional Middle Counselor.

First line, "au koto no": "of meeting," modifying "arishi tokoro" in the second line.
Second line, "arishi tokoro shi": "arishi" means "where it once was," and "shi" is an emphatic particle, "the very place where we met."
Third line, "kawarazu wa": "zu wa" is a negative supposition, "if it had not changed." It answers "mashi" in the fourth and last lines.
Fourth line, "kokoro o dani mo": "dani" marks a minimum, "at least my heart," implying "even if I cannot go myself."
Fifth line, "yaramashi mono o": "yaru" means to send, and "mashi" is the counterfactual auxiliary, while "mono o" is a final particle expressing adversative lament. It closes lamenting, "I would send it, but have no way."
Author: Minamoto no Masayori
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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