Waga koi wa ama no hara tobu ashitazu no kumoi ni nomi ya nakiwatarinamu

わが恋は天の原飛ぶ葦鶴の
雲居にのみや鳴き渡りなむ

Roma-ji: Waga koi wa ama no hara tobu ashitazu no kumoi ni nomi ya nakiwatarinamu
English Translation: This love of mine,
like the reed-crane flying
across the plain of heaven—
shall it only in the clouds
go crying on and on?
Meaning: Like the reed crane flying across the wide sky, shall my love go on crying only among the far clouds?
Commentary: Love Poems 434

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Among poems on love"
Like a crane crossing the sky with its cry, the poet's love may go on weeping only in places as unreachable as the clouds; the poem suggests a beloved of high and distant station.
The base text glosses line 5 with wataruran, and the Ruijū text reads line 5 as naki wataran. Here the base text is followed.

Line 1 means "this love of mine."
Line 2 means "flying across the plain of heaven," the same words as 431.
Line 3 means "like the crane of the reeds," taking up the cranes of the preceding poem.
Line 4: kumoi means the sky and also suggests the court or a lofty place; ya binds namu in line 5.
Line 5 overlays crying as one flies across and weeping on and on.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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