Ikasama ni omoitsuzukete uramimashi hitoe ni tsuraki kimi naranaku ni

いかさまに思ひ続けて恨みまし
ひとへにつらき君ならなくに

Roma-ji: Ikasama ni omoitsuzukete uramimashi hitoe ni tsuraki kimi naranaku ni
English Translation: In what kind of way
should I go on thinking long
and hold a grudge?
For you are not one who's cold
and unkind through and through.
Meaning: How should I go on thinking and resenting you, when you are not someone who is simply cruel?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1345

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "One hundred and ten love poems"
How should he go on resenting her, the poet asks, when she is not simply cruel?
It sings of a complex heart unable to resent fully a beloved who sometimes shows kindness. A wholly cold person could be resented, but because she is not, it is all the harder.

First line, “ikasama ni”: in what way.
Second line, “omoitsuzukete”: going on thinking.
Third line, “uramimashi”: mashi expresses hesitant will, "how should I resent?"; the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “hitoe ni tsuraki”: hitoe ni means "wholly."
Fifth line, “kimi naranaku ni”: naku ni means "though you are not," the inversion giving the reason.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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