袖の上の人目知られし折までは
みさをなりける我が涙かな
みさをなりける我が涙かな
- Roma-ji
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Sode no ue no hitome shirareshi ori made wa misao narikeru waga namida kana
- English Translation
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Until the moment
the tears upon my sleeves were
seen by others' eyes,
how composed and calm they were,
these tears that now are mine.
- Meaning
- Until the moment the tears on my sleeves were noticed by others, how calm and composed those tears of mine had been.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1272
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "One hundred and ten love poems"
Until the time the tears on his sleeves were noticed by others, those tears had been composed, the poet says.
Once discovered, there is no longer any need to hold the tears back, and they flow without end; this is expressed by looking back on how calm they were before. In 1251 too it was said that had the tears been composed, the love would not have been known.
First line, “sode no ue no”: of the tears on my sleeves; the line has an extra syllable.
Second line, “hitome shirareshi”: noticed by others; shi is the attributive of the past ki.
Third line, “ori made wa”: up to that time.
Fourth line, “misao narikeru”: composed and unruffled.
Fifth line, “waga namida kana”: kana is exclamatory, "so were my tears."
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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