Ware yue ni nururu ni wa araji karagoromo yamaji no koke no tsuyu ni zo aramashi

われゆゑに濡るるにはあらじ唐衣
山路の苔の露にぞあらまし

Roma-ji: Ware yue ni nururu ni wa araji karagoromo yamaji no koke no tsuyu ni zo aramashi
English Translation: It is not for me
that your sleeves have grown so wet,
your Chinese robe;
it must be the dew that lay
on the moss of mountain paths.
Meaning: Your sleeves are surely not wet with tears for my sake; that fine robe of yours must have been soaked by the dew on the moss of the mountain paths.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 609

Headnote: "In reply when someone who had gone to a distant province wrote to me, 'I would show you my sleeves'"
Someone who had gone to a distant province wrote that they wished to show their tear-soaked sleeves, and the poet replies that the sleeves are wet not with tears for him but with the dew of the mountain moss, playfully deflecting the complaint. "I would show you my sleeves" draws on Inpumon'in no Taifu's Hyakunin Isshu poem about sleeves soaked through yet keeping their colour.
The Ruijū text and the text transmitted by Teika read line 5 as tsuyu ni zo arikeru; here the source as displayed is followed, tsuyu ni zo aramashi. Kamo no Mabuchi asked whether karagoromo should be karigoromo, "hunting robe."

Line 1 means "because of me."
Line 2 means "they are not wet, surely," eight syllables, beyond the norm.
Line 3 means "fine robe," the other's sleeve.
Line 4 means "of the moss on the mountain path," the road to the far province.
Line 5 means "it must be dew," zo concluded by mashi, recasting the other's tears as dew.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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