二つなき心を君にとどめおきて
我さへ我に別れぬるかな
我さへ我に別れぬるかな
- Roma-ji
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Futatsu naki kokoro o kimi ni todomeokite ware sae ware ni wakarenuru kana
- English Translation
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This heart, my only,
I have left behind with you,
and so it seems that
even I myself have now
come to part from my own self.
- Meaning
- Because I have left my one and only heart behind with you, it is not only from you that I part: I have parted even from myself.
- Commentary
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Book Six Parting Poems 182
A poem saying that, having left one's single heart with the beloved at parting, the speaker has become an empty shell and has parted even from their own self. With witty expression that turns parting from another into parting from oneself, it conveys how deep the sorrow of farewell runs.
First line, "futatsu naki," means having no second, the only one.
Second line, "kokoro o kimi ni" (my heart to you), shows the idea of entrusting that one heart to the other person.
Third line, "todomeokite," means leaving behind. Whereas "todomezarikere" in 174 speaks of being unable to hold back the traveler, here it is one's own heart that is left to stay with the other.
Fourth line, "ware sae ware ni": the additive "sae" means that besides parting from you, even I myself part, and the same word is repeated.
Final line, "wakarenuru kana": "nuru" is the perfective "nu," and "kana" exclaims. The speaker, now without a heart, is drawn as one party to the parting, and the poem closes with surprise.
- Source
- Shika Wakashu
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