Ashinoya no Nada no shioyaki ware nare ya yoru wa sugara ni kuyuri waburamu

芦屋の灘の塩焼き我なれや
夜はすがらにくゆりわぶらむ

Roma-ji: Ashinoya no Nada no shioyaki ware nare ya yoru wa sugara ni kuyuri waburamu
English Translation: Am I the salt-burner
on the sea of Ashinoya,
that all night long
I smolder through the dark
in grief that will not end?
Meaning: Am I the salt-burner on the shore of Ashinoya, that all night long I smolder in my grief?
Commentary: Love Poems 469

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the theme of love at famous places"
As the smoke of the fisherfolk burning salt all night at Ashinoya smolders on, so the poet smolders in grief all night; he lays himself over the salt-burner.

Line 1 names Ashinoya, a poetic place in Settsu.
Line 2 names the salt-burner of the shore.
Line 3: ya is interrogative, "is it that I am?"; the poem pauses here.
Line 4 means "all through the night."
Line 5 means "do I smolder in grief," the same kuyuri wabu as line 5 of 435; after the snow of the preceding poem, the scene returns to smoke and fire.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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