Au koto no nageki no tsumoru kurushisa o oe kashi hito no korihatsuru made - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

逢ふことのなげきの積もる苦しさを
負へかし人のこりはつるまで

Roma-ji: Au koto no nageki no tsumoru kurushisa o oe kashi hito no korihatsuru made
English Translation: The pain of sorrows
heaped like firewood, as we
never come to meet,
let that one bear it on his back
till he has had his fill
Meaning: Let that one carry on his back the pain of my sorrows, heaped up like firewood because we never meet, until he has had more than enough of it.
Commentary: Book Eighteen Miscellaneous Poems III 1193

Headnote: "Composed as a love poem when presenting a hundred-poem sequence"
She composed this as a love poem when presenting a hundred-poem sequence. The pain of sorrows piling up over our meeting, let that one bear it until he is sick of it, she says. Playing "nageki," sorrow, against "nageki," firewood, having the heaped wood carried on the back, and playing "koru," to cut wood, against "koru," to have had enough, she turns into a woodcutter's jest her resentful wish to make a cold lover feel her suffering.
The author, "Horikawa of Taikenmon'in," was a daughter of Minamoto no Akinaka, head of the Office of Divinities. She served Taikenmon'in, empress of Emperor Toba, and was called Horikawa.
It is the fourteenth of the humorous poems.

First line, "au koto no": "of meeting," the meeting of lovers.
Second line, "nageki no tsumoru": "nageki" plays on sorrow and on "nageki," firewood, and "tsumoru," to pile up, is an associated word.
Third line, "kurushisa o": "the pain of it," object of "oe" in the fourth line.
Fourth line, "oe kashi hito no": "oe" is the imperative "bear it on your back," and "kashi" a final particle of insistence. It takes up the image of carrying firewood.
Fifth line, "korihatsuru made": "kori" plays on "koru," to have had enough, and "koru," to cut wood. "Hatsuru" means to do something completely.
Author: Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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