Uki yume wa nagori made koso kanashikere kono yo no nochi mo nao ya nagekan - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

憂き夢は名残までこそ悲しけれ
此の世の後もなほや嘆かん

Roma-ji: Uki yume wa nagori made koso kanashikere kono yo no nochi mo nao ya nagekan
English Translation: A sorrowful dream
is sad even in the traces
that it leaves behind;
after this world is done,
will I go on grieving still?
Meaning: A sorrowful dream is sad even in what lingers after waking. When this life is over, will I still go on grieving?
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1127

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on dreams in a hundred-poem sequence expressing my grievances"
This poem was composed as a poem on dreams in a hundred-poem sequence of grievances. A sorrowful dream is sad even in its lingering traces; after this world, will I still grieve, he says. A painful dream leaves sad traces even after one wakes. In the same way, if life in this world, itself like a dream, is painful, he fears he may go on grieving over its traces even after death, and dreads that the sorrows of this world may reach into the next.
The author, "Master of the Empress Dowager's Household Shunzei," is Fujiwara no Shunzei. A son of Fujiwara no Toshitada, he served as master of the empress dowager's household, took the tonsure in Angen 2 (1176) and was called Shakua. He compiled the Senzai Wakashū and was the father of Fujiwara no Teika.
It shares "this world" with "kono yo no koto no" in the second line of 1123 of this book, both seeing this world as a dream. Where 1123 does not know when one will wake from the dream, this poem grieves even over what lingers after waking.

First line, "uki yume wa": "a sorrowful dream," a figure for life in this world.
Second line, "nagori made koso": "nagori" is what lingers after something has passed, and "koso," an emphatic binding particle, closes with "kere" in the third line.
Third line, "kanashikere": the realis of the adjective "kanashi," closing the binding. The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "kono yo no nochi mo": "even after this life is over." It shares "this world" with "kono yo no koto no" in the second line of 1123 of this book.
Fifth line, "nao ya nagekan": "ya" is an interrogative binding particle and "n" the attributive of the conjectural "mu," "will I still grieve?"
Author: Fujiwara no Shunzei
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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