Tsukuzuku to omoeba kanashi akatsuki no nezame mo yume o miru ni zo arikeru - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

つくづくと思へば悲し暁の
寝覚めも夢を見るにぞありける

Roma-ji: Tsukuzuku to omoeba kanashi akatsuki no nezame mo yume o miru ni zo arikeru
English Translation: When I think it through,
how sorrowful it is:
waking before dawn,
even this is but a way
of seeing yet another dream
Meaning: When I think on it deeply, how sad it is: even waking before the dawn is, I find, only another way of seeing a dream.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1139

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When I think it through, how sad it is: waking at dawn too is only seeing a dream, she says. Even when one wakes before dawn and thinks one has come out of a dream, that waking reality is itself only part of the dream of this world. She sings of the sorrow of living in an impermanent world from which one never truly wakes.
The author, "Taifu of Inpumon'in," was a daughter of Fujiwara no Nobunari. She served Inpumon'in Princess Ryōshi and was known as a poet who composed a great many poems.
It shares "nezame," waking in the night, with the next poem, 1140. It also shares with the poems on dream and waking from 1123 to 1130 of this book the view of this world as a dream.

First line, "tsukuzuku to": "deeply, earnestly."
Second line, "omoeba kanashi": "when I think of it, it is sad," and the poem pauses here.
Third line, "akatsuki no": "of the dark hours before dawn."
Fourth line, "nezame mo yume o": "even waking, a dream." It shares "nezame" with "nezame zo aranu" in the fourth line of the next poem, 1140.
Fifth line, "miru ni zo arikeru": "zo" is an emphatic binding particle closing with "keru," the attributive of the exclamatory "keri."
Author: Inpumon-in no Taifu
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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