Tonikaku ni itowamahoshiki yo naredomo kimi ga sumu ni mo hikarenuru kana

とにかくに厭はまほしき世なれども
君がすむにも引かれぬるかな

Roma-ji: Tonikaku ni itowamahoshiki yo naredomo kimi ga sumu ni mo hikarenuru kana
English Translation: In so many ways
this is a world I would fain
cast off and forsake—
yet the thought that you live here
draws my heart and holds it back.
Meaning: This is a world I long in every way to cast off, yet the fact that you live in it holds my heart back.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1348

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "One hundred and ten love poems"
In every way this is a world he wishes to forsake, yet the fact that the beloved lives in it draws his heart back, the poet says.
A love poem very like Saigyō, in which the wish to renounce the world conflicts with attachment to the beloved; he longs to cast off the world but cannot because she is in it.

First line, “tonikaku ni”: in every way.
Second line, “itowamahoshiki”: mahoshi expresses wish, "that I would forsake."
Third line, “yo naredomo”: though it is such a world.
Fourth line, “kimi ga sumu ni mo”: sumu, "live," also echoes a heart "grown clear."
Fifth line, “hikarenuru kana”: re is spontaneous, "how my heart is drawn."
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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