Wasurenu ya shinobu ya ikani awanu ma no katami to kikishi akekure no sora - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

忘れぬや忍ぶやいかに逢はぬまの
形見と聞きし明け暮れの空

Roma-ji: Wasurenu ya shinobu ya ikani awanu ma no katami to kikishi akekure no sora
English Translation: Have you not forgotten,
do you still remember, how is it?
while we are apart,
the keepsake, so I was told,
the sky of dawn and dusk
Meaning: Have you not forgotten? Do you still remember, I wonder? The sky of dawn and dusk you said you'd keep as a keepsake while we are apart.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 884

Headnote: "Sent after a woman with whom I had gazed at the sky of dawn and dusk said she would look at it as a keepsake until we met again"
This poem was sent after a woman with whom he had gazed at the sky of dawn and dusk said she would look at it as a keepsake until they met again. Have you not forgotten, do you remember, he asks, the sky of dawn and dusk you said was a keepsake while we are apart? Recalling her words that she would keep the sky they gazed at together as a keepsake while they could not meet, he asks whether, as promised, she still looks at the sky and remembers him.
The author, "Middle Captain of the Right Palace Guards Tadayoshi," was Fujiwara no Tadayoshi. The son of Regent Fujiwara no Motozane, he served as Middle Captain of the Right Palace Guards and later joined the ranks of the senior nobles.
Poem 854 in this book also takes keepsakes as its subject, singing of letters that become keepsakes after parting. And where 873 ends with "yūgure no sora," this poem ends with "akekure no sora," both closing on "sky."

First line, "wasurenu ya": "ya" is an interrogative particle, "have you not forgotten?"
Second line, "shinobu ya ikani": "shinobu" means to remember fondly, and "ikani" a word of questioning, "how is it?" The poem pauses here.
Third line, "awanu ma no": "of the time we do not meet."
Fourth line, "katami to kikishi": "katami" is something that serves to recall the beloved while apart, and "shi" is the attributive of the past "ki," "which I heard you would keep as a keepsake."
Fifth line, "akekure no sora": the poem ends on a noun, the sky of morning and evening. It is the object of the questions in the first and second lines, closing in inverted order. Like "yūgure no sora" in the last line of 873 in this book, it closes on "sky."
Author: Fujiwara no Tadayoshi
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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