Naki hito o omoiidetaru yūgure wa uramishi koto zo kuyashikarikeru - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

亡き人を思ひ出でたる夕暮れは
恨みしことぞ悔しかりける

Roma-ji: Naki hito o omoiidetaru yūgure wa uramishi koto zo kuyashikarikeru
English Translation: On evenings when I
call to mind the one now gone,
how I come to regret
those times when I let myself
reproach you while you lived
Meaning: On evenings when I remember the one who is gone, how I regret ever having reproached that person while they lived.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 954

Headnote: "On the topic 'at dusk, longing for one who has died'"
Composed on the topic "at dusk, longing for one who has died." On evenings when I recall the one who is gone, he says, I regret having reproached. Dusk is the hour of waiting for a lover's visit, and remembering the dead at that hour, he regrets all over again having voiced reproach while the person lived, singing of remorse toward one he will never meet again.
The author, "the Later Lay Priest Prince of Ninna-ji," is Prince Kakushō. The fifth son of Emperor Toba, his mother was Taikenmon'in Tamako, and he was the full younger brother of Retired Emperors Sutoku and Go-Shirakawa. He entered Ninna-ji as a child and took the tonsure, later succeeding as its abbot, and was called the Shikondaiji Omuro.
Like 916 of this book, "urami zu wa wasurenu hito mo ari namashi," it regrets having reproached. Where 916 regrets that reproach drove the beloved's heart away, this poem regrets it after the person reproached has died, treating the same remorse across the divide between life and death. It also shares the theme of love at dusk with "omoitaetaru kure" in 944.

First line, "naki hito o": "the one who has died," taking up "one who has died" in the topic.
Second line, "omoiidetaru": "taru" is the attributive of the perfective "tari," "when I have recalled."
Third line, "yūgure wa": taking up "dusk" in the topic, it marks the hour of waiting for a lover's visit. It shares the evening with "kure mo arikeri" in the last line of 944 of this book.
Fourth line, "uramishi koto zo": "shi" is the attributive of the past "ki," "that I reproached while they lived." The emphatic "zo" closes with the attributive "keru" in the last line. It shares the theme of reproach with "urami zu wa" in the first line of 916 of this book.
Fifth line, "kuyashikarikeru": "kuyashikari" is the continuative of the adjective "kuyashi," "regrettable," and "keru" the attributive of "keri," expressing realization, closing the "zo" of the fourth line, "how I regret it."
Author: Prince-Priest Kakushō
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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