我ながら疑はれぬる心かな
ゆゑなく袖を絞るべきかは
ゆゑなく袖を絞るべきかは
- Roma-ji
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Ware nagara utagawarenuru kokoro kana yue naku sode o shiboru beki ka wa
- English Translation
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Even to myself
this heart of mine now seems
open to suspicion—
for without a cause, would I
have to wring out my sleeves so?
- Meaning
- Even to myself, this heart of mine seems suspect—would I be wringing out my sleeves like this for no reason at all?
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1339
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "One hundred and ten love poems"
Even to himself his heart seems suspect, the poet says; would he wring his sleeves for no reason?
Even if he will not admit to being in love, the tears wringing his sleeves prove it; it is a self-questioning love poem, intellectual in tone, looking objectively at his own heart.
First line, “ware nagara”: even of myself.
Second line, “utagawarenuru”: re is spontaneous, "comes to seem suspect."
Third line, “kokoro kana”: kana is exclamatory; the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “yue naku sode o”: my sleeves, without cause.
Fifth line, “shiboru beki ka wa”: ka wa is rhetorical, "would I wring them? Surely not."
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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