Ōkenaku ukiyo no tami ni ōu kana waga tatsu soma ni sumizome no sode - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

おほけなく憂き世の民におほふかな
我が立つ杣にすみぞめの袖

Roma-ji: Ōkenaku ukiyo no tami ni ōu kana waga tatsu soma ni sumizome no sode
English Translation: Presumptuous as it is,
over the people of this world
of sorrow I spread
these sleeves dyed black, first worn
on the timbered mount I dwell
Meaning: Presumptuous though it is, I spread over the people of this sorrowful world the ink-dyed sleeves I first put on when I came to dwell on this timbered mountain.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1137

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Presumptuous as it is, I spread over the people of the sorrowful world the ink-dyed sleeves I first put on dwelling on this timbered mount, he says. Though a mere novice monk on Mount Hiei, he resolves through the power of the Buddhist Law to shelter the people of the world from suffering by covering them with his ink-dyed sleeves, singing of his great aspiration as a monk of the Tendai school. "Waga tatsu soma," the timbered mountain where I stand, became a phrase for Mount Hiei through the poem of Dengyō Daishi Saichō, who founded it, "anokutara sanmyaku sanbodai no hotoketachi waga tatsu soma ni myōga arasetamae." This poem is also included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
The author, "Hōin Jien," was a son of the regent Fujiwara no Tadamichi. He served four times as head of the Tendai school and wrote the history Gukanshō.
It shares the fifth line "sumizome no sode" with the preceding poem, 1136. Where the preceding poem sings of a layman who wears ink-dyed sleeves in his heart alone, this poem sings of a monk who covers the people of the world with them, so the two stand in contrast.

First line, "ōkenaku": "presumptuous though it is, unworthy as I am."
Second line, "ukiyo no tami ni": "over the people who live in this sorrowful world."
Third line, "ōu kana": "how I spread them over," meaning to cover with his sleeves. The poem pauses here, in inversion with the lower verse.
Fourth line, "waga tatsu soma ni": "on the mountain where I dwell," Mount Hiei, using the words of Saichō's poem.
Fifth line, "sumizome no sode": "sumizome" is a pivot word joining "sumizome," dyed with ink, and "sumi some," to begin to dwell, giving "the ink-dyed sleeves of one who has begun to dwell on Mount Hiei." It is the same fifth line as the preceding poem, 1136.
Author: Jien
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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