訪はれぬも訪はぬ心のつれなさも
憂きは変はらぬ心地こそすれ
憂きは変はらぬ心地こそすれ
- Roma-ji
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Towarenu mo towanu kokoro no tsurenasa mo uki wa kawaranu kokochi koso sure
- English Translation
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Not to be visited,
and the coldness of a heart
that will not visit—
both alike, it seems to me,
are the same in all their pain.
- Meaning
- Not being visited, and the coldness of a heart that will not visit—both feel to me the same in their pain.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1279
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "One hundred and ten love poems"
Not being visited, and the coldness of one's own heart that will not visit, both seem the same in their pain, the poet says.
Pairing "not being visited" with "not visiting," it says that the pain of the one who waits and the one who holds back from pride is the same; the suffering of estranged lovers who cannot yield to each other comes through.
First line, “towarenu mo”: not being visited; re is passive.
Second line, “towanu kokoro no”: of a heart that does not visit, paired with the first line.
Third line, “tsurenasa mo”: its coldness too.
Fourth line, “uki wa kawaranu”: the pain is no different.
Fifth line, “kokochi koso sure”: koso is emphatic, answered by the realis sure.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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