心から心に物を思はせて
身を苦しむる我が身なりけり
身を苦しむる我が身なりけり
- Roma-ji
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Kokoro kara kokoro ni mono o omowasete mi o kurushimuru waga mi narikeri
- English Translation
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Of my own accord
my heart makes my heart brood
on things of love—
and so it is myself, I see,
that torments this self of mine.
- Meaning
- Of its own accord my heart makes my heart brood, and so it is I myself who torment myself.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1327
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "One hundred and ten love poems"
Of its own accord his heart makes his heart brood, and it is he himself who torments himself, the poet realizes.
It sings of the awareness that the cause of love's pain lies not in the beloved but in one's own heart. Repeating "heart" and "self," it expresses the circle of tormenting oneself, in tune with the Buddhist idea that suffering arises from one's own mind.
First line, “kokoro kara”: of the heart's own accord.
Second line, “kokoro ni mono o”: brooding, in the heart, repeating kokoro.
Third line, “omowasete”: making it brood.
Fourth line, “mi o kurushimuru”: tormenting the self.
Fifth line, “waga mi narikeri”: keri marks realization, "it is I myself."
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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