Yatose made tenarashitarishi azusayumi kaeru o miru ni ne zo nakarekeru - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

八年まで手馴らしたりし梓弓
返るを見るにねぞ泣かれける

Roma-ji: Yatose made tenarashitarishi azusayumi kaeru o miru ni ne zo nakarekeru
English Translation: For eight years until now
I have kept it close to hand,
this catalpa bow;
seeing it return at last
I am moved to cry aloud
Meaning: This catalpa bow I have handled for eight long years; seeing it go back to its owner, I cannot help but cry aloud.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 974

Headnote: "Sent with the bow when I returned it, having borrowed it from the Minister of the Right of Naka-no-in while he was middle counselor and I was intendant of the Right Military Guards, at the time I resigned my office and shut myself away"
While he was intendant of the Right Military Guards, he had borrowed a bow from Minamoto no Masasada, the future Minister of the Right of Naka-no-in, then a middle counselor; when he resigned his post and withdrew from the world, he returned the bow with this poem. Seeing this catalpa bow I have handled for eight years go back, I cannot help but cry aloud, he says. He entrusts the sorrow of one who has resigned office and no longer needs a military officer's bow to his parting from a bow long familiar to his hand.
The author, the "Former Chancellor of Ōmiya," is Fujiwara no Koremichi. A son of Fujiwara no Munemichi, he once resigned his post and withdrew, but later returned and rose to chancellor. He was called the Chancellor of Ōmiya and presented the Daikai Hishō to Emperor Nijō.
The next poem, 975, is Minamoto no Masasada's reply, and the two form an exchange sharing "azusayumi" and "kaeru."

First line, "yatose made": "for as long as eight years."
Second line, "tenarashitarishi": "tenarasu" means to make familiar by use; "tari" is the perfective and "shi" the attributive of the past auxiliary "ki."
Third line, "azusayumi": a bow made of catalpa wood. It shares the same word with "azusayumi" in the third line of the next poem, 975.
Fourth line, "kaeru o miru ni": "seeing it go back to its owner"; "kaeru" is associated with the bow. It answers "mata hikikaesu" in the fourth line of the next poem.
Fifth line, "ne zo nakarekeru": "ne" means the sound of weeping, echoing the twang of a bowstring. The emphatic binding particle "zo" closes with "keru," the attributive of the exclamatory "keri," with "re" the spontaneous auxiliary "ru," "I cannot help but cry aloud."
Author: Fujiwara no Koremichi
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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