Hana ni somu kokoro no ikade nokoriken sutehatete ki to omou wagami ni - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

花に染む心のいかで残りけん
捨て果ててきと思ふ我が身に

Roma-ji: Hana ni somu kokoro no ikade nokoriken sutehatete ki to omou wagami ni
English Translation: A heart dyed so deep
in blossoms, how could it be
that it still remains
in me, who thought I had
cast all things away for good?
Meaning: How could a heart so steeped in the blossoms still remain in me, who believed I had cast off everything for good?
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1066

Headnote: "From the time I composed many poems on blossoms"
This is one of many poems he composed on blossoms. How could a heart dyed in the blossoms remain in me, who thought I had cast all away, he says. Though he believed that on taking the tonsure he had abandoned all attachment to the world, the sight of the flowers still draws his heart deeply. Surprised and perplexed at himself, he frankly admits the strength of his love for the blossoms.
The author, "the monk En'i," is Saigyō. His lay name was Satō Norikiyo; he was a guardsman of the north quarters of Retired Emperor Toba, but took the tonsure at twenty-three. He traveled through the provinces and left many poems.
It shares the heart "dyed" in the blossoms with "someshi kokoro o" in the fifth line of 1068 of this book. Where this poem says that a heart dyed in the flowers remains in one who thought he had cast all away, 1068 sings of turning back the heart once dyed in their color, so the two stand in contrast.

First line, "hana ni somu": "somu," from a color soaking in, means to be deeply drawn, the heart captured as if the color of the flowers had soaked into it. It shares this "dyeing" of the heart with "someshi kokoro o" in the fifth line of 1068 of this book.
Second line, "kokoro no ikade": "ikade," "how," answers "ken" in the third line.
Third line, "nokoriken": "ken" is the attributive of the past conjectural auxiliary "kemu," "how could it have remained?" The poem pauses here, in inversion with the lower verse.
Fourth line, "sutehatete ki to": "te" is the continuative of the perfective "tsu" and "ki" the past auxiliary, "that I had cast it all away."
Fifth line, "omou wagami ni": "in me, who thought so," turning back through the inversion to the third line.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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