Omoishiru kokoro no naki o nageku kana ukimi yue koso hito mo tsurakere - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思ひ知る心のなきを嘆くかな
憂き身ゆゑこそ人もつらけれ

Roma-ji: Omoishiru kokoro no naki o nageku kana ukimi yue koso hito mo tsurakere
English Translation: I grieve that I have
no heart that could come to know
how things truly stand:
it is my own wretchedness
that makes the other cold to me
Meaning: I grieve that I lack a heart that understands; it is because of my own wretched self that the one I love is cold to me.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 932

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a love poem"
Composed as a love poem, like the preceding one. I grieve that I have no heart to understand, he says; it is because of my wretched self that the other is cold. Though the other's coldness comes from his own shortcomings, he lacks the sense to see it and only reproaches the other, and he laments his own folly. Seeing the cause of the beloved's coldness in himself, it is a poem of self-reflection.
The author, "Fujiwara no Takachika," was an official and poet of the late Heian period. Little is known of his career.
Like the preceding poem, 931, it sees the beloved's coldness as caused by his own wretchedness, sharing the word "uki." It also shares "omoishiru" with 916 of this book, "omoishirade zo aru bekarikeru"; where 916 regrets not having stayed unknowing, this poem laments having no heart that knows, so that the two form a reversed composition.

First line, "omoishiru": "to realize deeply," to understand how things stand. It is the same word as "omoishirade zo" in the fourth line of 916 of this book.
Second line, "kokoro no naki o": "that I lack the sense to understand."
Third line, "nageku kana": "kana" is exclamatory, "how I grieve." The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "ukimi yue koso": "ukimi" is one's own sorry, wretched self, and "yue" means cause, "because of my wretched self." The emphatic "koso" closes with the perfective "kere" in the last line. It shares "uki" with "uki o itou wa" in the fourth line of the preceding poem, 931.
Fifth line, "hito mo tsurakere": "tsurakere" is the perfective of the adjective "tsurashi," closing the "koso" of the fourth line, "the other too is cold."
Author: Fujiwara no Takachika
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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