Miyako yori fukikomu kaze no kimi naraba wasuru na to dani iwamashi mono o

都より吹き来む風の君ならば
忘るなとだに言はましものを

Roma-ji: Miyako yori fukikomu kaze no kimi naraba wasuru na to dani iwamashi mono o
English Translation: If only the wind
blowing here from the capital
were really you,
I would at the very least say,
"Do not forget me."
Meaning: If the wind blowing here from the capital were you, I would at least be able to say, "Do not forget me."
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 598

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed and sent by a messenger when a certain person had gone up to the capital"
If the wind blowing from the capital were the beloved, the poet says, he could at least ask not to be forgotten. Where the preceding poem asked the wind to carry his heart to the capital, this one makes the wind from the capital stand for the beloved. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with praise.
The base text reads line 2 as fukikokomu, here read fukikomu. The Ruijū text makes line 4 wasuru na to dani mo, eight syllables.

Line 1 means "from the capital," answering "toward the capital" of the preceding poem, so the wind going and the wind coming form a reversed pair.
Line 2 means "the wind that blows here."
Line 3 means "if it were you," a counterfactual condition.
Line 4 means "at least 'do not forget,'" na prohibitive and dani marking the least of wishes.
Line 5 means "I would say it," mashi counterfactual and mono o exclamatory.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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