Ware nare ya kaze o wazurau shinodake wa okifushi mono no kokorobosokute

我なれや風を煩ふ篠竹は
おきふしものの心細くて

Roma-ji: Ware nare ya kaze o wazurau shinodake wa okifushi mono no kokorobosokute
English Translation: Is it me, I wonder,
the slender bamboo that is
troubled by the wind,
rising up and lying down,
so forlorn in every way?
Meaning: Is it myself, this slender bamboo troubled by the wind? Rising and falling, it seems so forlorn.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1039

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
Is it myself, the slender bamboo troubled by the wind, rising and falling so forlornly? the poet asks, laying over the bamboo bending in the wind his own lonely figure lying ill with a cold and rising again.

First line, “ware nare ya”: ya asks, is it me? The poem breaks here.
Second line, “kaze o wazurau”: kaze joins wind and cold, troubled by the wind and ill with a cold.
Third line, “shinodake wa”: the slender bamboo.
Fourth line, “okifushi mono no”: okifushi is a pivot word joining the bamboo bending and rising in the wind and a person lying down and getting up.
Fifth line, “kokorobosokute”: so forlorn, inverted to follow the first line.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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