忘らるる身はうらぶれぬ唐衣
きてもたちにし名こそ惜しけれ
きてもたちにし名こそ惜しけれ
- Roma-ji
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Wasuraruru mi wa uraburenu karagoromo kite mo tachinishi na koso oshikere
- English Translation
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Forgotten, I am
all withered with my grief;
like a Chinese robe,
worn and cut, the name that rose
when you came is what I mourn.
- Meaning
- Forgotten, I am withered with grief; yet what I truly regret is the name that rose when you came to me, as a Chinese robe is put on and cut.
- Commentary
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Love Poems 542
Headnote: "When people were composing poems: love, on robes"
Forgotten by his beloved, the poet is utterly withered, but more than that he regrets the rumor that rose from the visits. The associated words of the Chinese robe are skillfully used. It was composed on the topic of love on robes when people were composing poems.
This poem was included in the Shokugosen Wakashū. The Ruijū text titles it "Love, likened to robes." According to the notes in the base text, the Ruijū and Teika texts and the Shokugosen Wakashū read line 4 as satemo tachinishi.
Line 1 means "forgotten."
Line 2 means "I am withered," the same urabure as in 420; the poem pauses here.
Line 3 names a Chinese robe, leading to its associated words "wear" and "cut."
Line 4 plays on kite, "wearing" and "coming," and tachi, "cutting" and "rising": even when you came, the rumor rose.
Line 5: koso is concluded by the evaluative oshikere; like "only my name rises" in 523, it laments a risen rumor.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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