Izuku ni ka mi o kakusamashi itoiidete ukiyo ni fukaki yama nakariseba - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

いづくにか身を隠さまし厭ひ出でて
憂き世に深き山なかりせば

Roma-ji: Izuku ni ka mi o kakusamashi itoiidete ukiyo ni fukaki yama nakariseba
English Translation: Where then should I hide,
having left the world behind
in weariness of it,
if this sorrowful world held
no mountains deep enough?
Meaning: Where should I hide myself, having fled the world in weariness, if in this sorrowful world there were no deep mountains?
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1150

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Where should I hide, having fled the world in weariness, if the sorrowful world had no deep mountains, he says. Even if one leaves home spurning the painful world, without deep mountains in which to hide there would be nowhere to go. It is because this sorrowful world too has deep mountains that one who has cast it off has a place to live hidden, and in a counterfactual form he sings of a feeling somewhere between gratitude and relief toward the mountains.
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 "izuku" and the question of where the self may go with 1126 of this book, which says that knowing nowhere to send oneself one lives on. Where 1126 laments having nowhere to go, this poem finds a hiding place in the existence of deep mountains. It also recalls "izuku nite" in the first line of 1073 of this book.

First line, "izuku ni ka": "ka" is an interrogative binding particle closing with "mashi" in the second line, "where." It recalls "izuku tomo" in the first line of 1126 and "izuku nite" in the first line of 1073 of this book.
Second line, "mi o kakusamashi": "mashi" is the counterfactual auxiliary, used with a question word to mean "where should I hide myself?" The poem pauses here.
Third line, "itoiidete": "having left home in weariness of the world."
Fourth line, "ukiyo ni fukaki": "deep in this sorrowful world."
Fifth line, "yama nakariseba": "se" is the irrealis of the past auxiliary "ki," and with "ba" it states a condition contrary to fact, "if there were no mountains."
Author: Saigyō
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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