Karehatemu nochi shinobe to ya natsukusa no fukaku wa hito no tanome okikemu

枯れ果てむ後偲べとや夏草の
深くは人の頼めおきけむ

Roma-ji: Karehatemu nochi shinobe to ya natsukusa no fukaku wa hito no tanome okikemu
English Translation: Was it that I might
remember after all had withered,
that like summer grass
so deeply did you lead me
to put my trust in you?
Meaning: Did you mean for me to remember you after all has withered? Like the deep summer grasses, so deeply did you lead me to trust in you.
Commentary: Love Poems 430

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Among poems on love"
The beloved led the poet to trust deeply, as deep as summer grasses grow; does that mean he should remember her only after love has withered? He reproaches her coldness, laying the flourishing and withering of summer grass over the height and end of love.
This poem was included in the Shinshūi Wakashū. The Ruijū text places it in the section of poems found in another manuscript and in printed editions.

Line 1 means "will wither utterly," overlaying the withering of grass and the ending of love.
Line 2 means "is it that I should remember afterward?" ya being an interrogative binding particle concluded by kemu in line 5.
Line 3 means "of the summer grass," whose depth leads to "deeply."
Line 4 means "so deeply did you," overlaying the depth of the grass and the depth of the trust she raised.
Line 5 means "did you lead me to trust," kemu being past conjecture.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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