Hito no yo ni futatabi shinuru mono naraba shinobikeri ya to kokoromitemashi - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

人の世に二たび死ぬるものならば
偲びけりやと試みてまし

Roma-ji: Hito no yo ni futatabi shinuru mono naraba shinobikeri ya to kokoromitemashi
English Translation: If in this world of men
one could die a second time,
then how I would try
to learn whether you had grieved
and remembered me with love
Meaning: If one could die twice in this world, I would try it, to learn whether you had mourned me.
Commentary: Book Nine Miscellaneous Poems I 327

If one could die twice, the poet says, she would die once to see whether the beloved would mourn her. The bold hypothesis of dying twice expresses an urgent wish to test the other's love.
Poem 346 of this book also uses "futatabi" (twice), regretting a world to which one can never return.

The first line, "hito no yo ni" (in this world of men), sets the scene.
The second line, "futatabi shinuru" (to die twice), presents an impossible supposition.
The third line, "mono naraba," is a hypothetical with the irrealis of the copula "nari" and "ba": if that were so.
The fourth line, "shinobikeri ya to," uses "keri" and the questioning "ya": whether he mourned me.
The final line, "kokoromitemashi," ends with the counterfactual "mashi": I would try it.
Author: Daini no Sanmi
Source: Shika Wakashu
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