Machiwabinu okure sakidatsu aware o mo kimi narade sawa tare ka tou beki

待ちわびぬ遅れ先立つあはれをも
君ならでさは誰か訪ふべき

Roma-ji: Machiwabinu okure sakidatsu aware o mo kimi narade sawa tare ka tou beki
English Translation: I am worn with waiting;
the grief of one left behind
when another goes,
if not you, then who else
would ever come to console?
Meaning: I have grown weary of waiting; the sorrow of one left behind when another goes first, who but you would come to console?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 834

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When my elder brother, the lay priest Sōkū, passed away and you did not come to call, I sent this"
This is the second of Jakuzen's five. I have grown weary of waiting; who but you would come to console one left behind? he writes, telling how he had waited and waited for Saigyō's visit.

First line, “machiwabinu”: I have grown weary of waiting; the poem breaks here.
Second line, “okure sakidatsu”: being left behind and going first, his grief at his brother's dying before him.
Third line, “aware o mo”: that sorrow as well.
Fourth line, “kimi narade sawa”: if not you, then.
Fifth line, “tare ka tou beki”: ka is a rhetorical binding particle answered by beki; who would come?
Author: Jakuzen
Source: Sankashu
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