物思へどもかからぬ人もあるものを
あはれなりける身の契りかな
あはれなりける身の契りかな
- Roma-ji
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Mono omoedomo kakaranu hito mo aru mono o aware narikeru mi no chigiri kana
- English Translation
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Though they brood on love,
there are those who never feel
the pain that I do,
yet how pitiful it is,
the destiny that is mine!
- Meaning
- There are others who brood over love without suffering as I do, and how pitiful, then, is the karmic bond that is mine!
- Commentary
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Love Poems 671
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Love"
Many people brood over love, yet among them there are those who do not suffer as much as the poet does. Comparing himself with them, he laments that bearing such pain must be due to the pitiful karmic bond he carries from a former life. He accepts the pain of love as his destined lot.
It was included in the fifth book of love poems of the Senzaishū.
First line, “mono omoedomo”: though one broods over love; the line has six syllables, one too many.
Second line, “kakaranu hito mo”: those who are not like this, who do not suffer as I do.
Third line, “aru mono o”: mono o is concessive: though there are such people.
Fourth line, “aware narikeru”: aware is pitiable, and keru marks realization.
Fifth line, “mi no chigiri kana”: chigiri is a bond fixed in a former life, one's karmic lot; kana is exclamatory.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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