Koko o mata ware sumiukute ukarenaba matsu wa hitori ni naran to suran

ここをまた我住み憂くて浮かれなば
松はひとりにならんとすらん

Roma-ji: Koko o mata ware sumiukute ukarenaba matsu wa hitori ni naran to suran
English Translation: If once again I
should find it hard to stay here
and drift on my way,
this pine tree, I suppose,
would be left all alone.
Meaning: If I should once again find it hard to live here and wander off, I suppose this pine would be left all alone.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1359

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Seeing a pine tree standing before my hut"
Continuing from the preceding poem on the pine before his hut: if he should again find it hard to stay and wander off, the pine would be left alone, the poet says, thinking of the tree.
The pine to which he entrusted his rites after death is now considered as the one left behind when he leaves. Aware of himself as a wanderer who has moved from place to place, he regrets parting from the pine. In the source data the words "When snow fell" stand at this poem's position, but judging from its content the poem is taken as continuing the preceding one on the pine; "When snow fell" is seen as the headnote of the poems that follow.

First line, “koko o mata”: this place, too, again, reflecting how he has left place after place.
Second line, “ware sumiukute”: I finding it hard to live.
Third line, “ukarenaba”: naba is perfective nu with ba, "if I wander off."
Fourth line, “matsu wa hitori ni”: the pine, alone, personified.
Fifth line, “naran to suran”: ran conjectures, "it would become so."
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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