Itōshi ya sara ni kokoro no osanabite tamakireraruru koi mo suru kana

いとほしやさらに心の幼びて
魂切れらるる恋もするかな

Roma-ji: Itōshi ya sara ni kokoro no osanabite tamakireraruru koi mo suru kana
English Translation: How pitiful I am!
Now my heart, all over again,
has turned like a child's,
and I'm in a love so deep
my very soul seems to fade.
Meaning: How pitiful I am! At this late age my heart has become like a child's, and I am in a love that makes my very soul faint away.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1320

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "One hundred and ten love poems"
How pitiful, the poet says: at this late age his heart has become childish, and he is in a love that makes his soul faint.
Though no longer young, he views with pity and self-mockery a self whose heart love has made like a child's. The next poem, 1321, also says the loving heart becomes like a child's, the two forming a pair.

First line, “itōshi ya”: how pitiful, a lament breaking after the first line.
Second line, “sara ni kokoro no”: my heart, now anew.
Third line, “osanabite”: becoming childish.
Fourth line, “tamakireraruru”: tamagiru is to be so grieved the soul faints; the text reads tamakireraruru.
Fifth line, “koi mo suru kana”: kana is exclamatory.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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