Yoshi saraba kimi ni kokoro wa tsukushiten mata mo koishiki hito mo koso are - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

よしさらば君に心は尽くしてん
又も恋しき人もこそあれ

Roma-ji: Yoshi saraba kimi ni kokoro wa tsukushiten mata mo koishiki hito mo koso are
English Translation: Well then, so be it:
I shall give my heart entire
to you and no other,
lest there come along some new
one I might come to love
Meaning: Well then, so be it: I will give my whole heart to you, for fear that someone else I might come to love should appear.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 953

Headnote: "Composed when someone had others compose ten poems"
Composed when someone had people compose ten poems. Well then, he says, I will give my heart wholly to you, lest there be someone else to love. If he keeps any of his heart in reserve he might fall in love with someone else, so he resolves to give all of it to her, conveying single-minded devotion in the form of a resolution. Using "mo koso," an expression of apprehension, it is a witty love poem that turns the fickleness of his own heart to advantage.
The author, "Former Imperial Adviser Norinaga," is Fujiwara no Norinaga. The son of Major Counselor Fujiwara no Tadanori, he rose to Imperial Adviser. A close retainer of Retired Emperor Sutoku, he was exiled after the Hōgen Disturbance. He was also known as a calligrapher and was one of the poets of the Kyūan sequences.
Poem 918 of this book, "waga kokoro sae nado kawaruran," also sings of a change in one's own heart, but this poem fears such a change in advance and resolves to give the whole heart to the beloved.

First line, "yoshi saraba": "yoshi" is an adverb of reluctant acceptance, and "saraba" means "if so," "well then, so be it."
Second line, "kimi ni kokoro wa": "my heart, to you."
Third line, "tsukushiten": "tsukusu" means to give entirely, "te" is the irrealis of the perfective "tsu," here intensifying, and "n" the volitional "mu," "I will give it all." The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "mata mo koishiki": "someone else whom I might love."
Fifth line, "hito mo koso are": "mo koso" expresses apprehension, "it would be troublesome if," and "are," the perfective of "ari," closes the "koso," "lest there be such a person."
Author: Fujiwara no Norinaga
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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