岩根踏み幾重の峰を越えぬとも
思ひも出でば心隔つな
思ひも出でば心隔つな
- Roma-ji
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Iwane fumi ikue no mine o koenu tomo omoi mo ideba kokoro hedatsu na
- English Translation
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Treading over rocks,
even if you cross the peaks
range on range away,
should you ever think of me,
do not set your heart apart.
- Meaning
- Even if you tread over rocks and cross peak after peak to go far away, if ever you think of me, do not let your heart grow distant.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 600
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed and sent by a messenger when a certain person had gone up to the capital"
Even if the other has crossed rugged rocks and range upon range of peaks to the far capital, the poet asks that, if ever remembering him, the heart not be set apart. The last of the series sent to the one in the capital, it closes with the wish that hearts stay close though mountains intervene.
The Ruijū text and the text transmitted by Teika differ in one letter at the end of line 4. The source as displayed shows both idemu and ideba; here it is read omoi mo ideba.
Line 1 means "treading on rocks."
Line 2 means "the many-layered peaks."
Line 3 means "even if you have crossed," nu perfective and tomo concessive.
Line 4 means "if you should remember."
Line 5 means "do not set your heart apart," na prohibitive, contrasting the distance of the peaks with the distance of hearts. Where the series opened in 595 with the cold of sleeping alone, it closes here with the wish for hearts to meet.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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