Itazura ni furinuru mi o mo Sumiyoshi no matsu wa saritomo aware shiruran - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

いたづらに古りぬる身をも住吉の
松はさりともあはれ知るらん

Roma-ji: Itazura ni furinuru mi o mo Sumiyoshi no matsu wa saritomo aware shiruran
English Translation: Even for this self
grown old to no avail, surely
the Sumiyoshi
pines, whatever else may be,
must feel some tenderness
Meaning: Even for me, grown old to no purpose, the pines of Sumiyoshi must surely feel some sympathy, whatever else may be.
Commentary: Book Twenty Shinto Poems 1263

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a poem of personal grievance when people composed poems for the Sumiyoshi Shrine poetry contest"
This too is a poem of personal grievance from the same Sumiyoshi Shrine contest. Even for this self grown old in vain, the pines of Sumiyoshi must feel tenderness, he says. Relying on the pines of Sumiyoshi, famed for their great age, as fellow beings worn by the years, he lays before the god his grief at growing old without advancement.
The author, "Shunzei, Master of the Empress Dowager's Household," is Fujiwara no Shunzei. A son of the Provisional Middle Counselor Fujiwara no Toshitada, he rose to master of the empress dowager's household and later took the tonsure. He compiled this anthology, the Senzai Wakashū, and was the father of Fujiwara no Teika.
With the preceding poem, 1262, it is a poem of grievance from the Sumiyoshi contest; that poem laments a self that has sunk, this one a self grown old. The next poem, 1264, also sings of an aged pine, and this poem's "furinuru" echoes its "furinikeru."

First line, "itazura ni": "in vain, to no purpose."
Second line, "furinuru mi o mo": "furu" means to grow old with the years, and "nuru" is the attributive of the perfective "nu." It answers "furinikeru" in the first line of the next poem, 1264.
Third line, "Sumiyoshi no": the area of the Sumiyoshi Shrine, famed for its pines.
Fourth line, "matsu wa saritomo": the pine, a tree of long life, is set beside the aged self, and "saritomo" means "even so."
Fifth line, "aware shiruran": "aware shiru" means to understand feeling, and "ran" is the present conjectural "ramu."
Author: Fujiwara no Shunzei
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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