さまざまのなげきを身には積み置きて
いつしめるべきおもひなるらん
いつしめるべきおもひなるらん
- Roma-ji
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Samazama no nageki o mi ni wa tsumiokite itsu shimerubeki omoi naruran
- English Translation
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Sorrows of all kinds
like firewood I have heaped
high upon myself;
when will they be dampened down,
these fires of my longing?
- Meaning
- Having heaped all kinds of sorrows upon myself like firewood, when will the fire of this love ever be damped and die?
- Commentary
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One Hundred Poems 1495
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Poems on Love"
The third of the ten poems on love. With sorrows of every kind heaped upon himself like firewood, when will the fire of his love ever be damped out?
Joining nageki, sorrow, with nageki, firewood, and omoi, longing, with hi, fire, it uses the traditional device of piled sorrows serving as fuel for love's fire. The unending pain of love is conveyed through this chain of words.
First line, “samazama no”: of every kind.
Second line, “nageki o mi ni wa”: nageki is a pivot word joining sorrow and nageki, firewood.
Third line, “tsumiokite”: heaping up, associated with firewood.
Fourth line, “itsu shimerubeki”: shimeru is to be dampened and go out, "when shall it be damped?"
Fifth line, “omoi naruran”: omoi is a pivot word joining longing and fire; ran is conjecture about the present.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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