Wakarenishi hito o futatabi ato o miba urami ya semashi towanu kokoro o

別れにし人をふたたび跡を見ば
恨みやせまし訪はぬ心を

Roma-ji: Wakarenishi hito o futatabi ato o miba urami ya semashi towanu kokoro o
English Translation: If the one now gone
could look once more upon the
traces left behind,
would he not resent the heart
that has not come to call?
Meaning: If my brother who has left us could look again on what he left behind, would he not resent the heart that has not come to call?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 835

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 third of Jakuzen's five. If my late brother could look again on what he left behind in this world, would he not resent the heart that has not come to pray for him? he asks, voicing his own reproach as that of his brother.

First line, “wakarenishi”: who has parted in death, his late brother.
Second line, “hito o futatabi”: that person once again.
Third line, “ato o miba”: if he could see what he left behind.
Fourth line, “urami ya semashi”: mashi is counterfactual; would he not resent it? The poem breaks here.
Fifth line, “towanu kokoro o”: the heart that does not call, inverted to follow the fourth line.
Author: Jakuzen
Source: Sankashu
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