Machikanete hitori wa fusedo shikitae no makura naraburu aramashi zo suru

待ちかねてひとりは伏せど敷妙の
枕並ぶるあらましぞする

Roma-ji: Machikanete hitori wa fusedo shikitae no makura naraburu aramashi zo suru
English Translation: Unable to wait,
though I lie down all alone,
on the finest cloth,
I keep picturing in my mind
our pillows laid side by side.
Meaning: Unable to wait any longer, I lie down alone, yet I keep imagining our pillows lying side by side.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1284

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "One hundred and ten love poems"
Unable to wait for the beloved, he lies down alone, yet keeps picturing their pillows side by side, the poet says.
In the loneliness of sleeping alone, his heart cannot help imagining the shared sleep that does not come. The text's first line reads "侍ちかねて," which does not match the reading line "machikanete"; following the reading line, 侍 is taken as a miswriting of 待, "wait."

First line, “machikanete”: unable to wait.
Second line, “hitori wa fusedo”: do is concessive, "though I lie down alone."
Third line, “shikitae no”: a pillow word for "pillow."
Fourth line, “makura naraburu”: laying pillows side by side, sleeping together.
Fifth line, “aramashi zo suru”: aramashi is an imagined prospect; zo is answered by the attributive suru.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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