今朝よりぞ人の心はつらからで
明けはなれゆく空を恨むる
明けはなれゆく空を恨むる
- Roma-ji
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Kesa yori zo hito no kokoro wa tsurakarade akehanareyuku sora o uramuru
- English Translation
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From this very dawn
it is not my love's cold heart
that brings me such pain:
the sky now growing fully light
is the one that I resent.
- Meaning
- From this morning on it is not your heart I find cruel; instead I resent the sky as it grows fully light.
- Commentary
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Love Poems 584
Headnote: "The morning after"
The topic is the morning after, when lovers who have spent the night together must part. Until now the poet resented the coldness of his beloved's heart, but from this morning, having at last met her, he resents not her heart but the sky that grows light and draws them apart. In the shift of his resentment from the person to the sky lie both the joy of a love fulfilled and the pain of parting.
First line, “kesa yori zo”: from this morning; the binding particle zo is answered by the attributive uramuru at the end. This answers the topic.
Second line, “hito no kokoro wa”: hito is the beloved.
Third line, “tsurakarade”: de is a negative conjunctive particle: no longer painful, since the lovers have met and there is no more cause to resent her coldness.
Fourth line, “akehanareyuku”: the night growing fully light, the hour of parting drawing near.
Fifth line, “sora o uramuru”: it is the sky I now resent, closing in the attributive form answering zo.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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