Omoiidete yoru wa sugara ni ne o zo naku arishi mukashi no yoyo no furugoto

思ひ出でて夜はすがらに音をぞ泣く
ありし昔の世々の古事

Roma-ji: Omoiidete yoru wa sugara ni ne o zo naku arishi mukashi no yoyo no furugoto
English Translation: Remembering them,
all the long night I weep aloud
with sobbing voice—
the things of long ago,
the ancient tales of all the ages.
Meaning: Remembering them, I weep aloud all night long: the old events of ages long past.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 680

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "At a place called Tsuchiya in Sagami there was a decrepit monk past ninety who came to me of his own accord; while telling tales of old, he wept as he told me he could no longer stand or sit, and then left. At that time I had my people compose on the theme of old age, and I too composed"
In the old monk's voice, the poet says that remembering the events of bygone ages he weeps aloud all night. Taking up the waking and remembering of the preceding poem, it sings of the sorrow of age, where memory brings tears. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a sign of praise.
It was included in the imperial anthology Shinchokusen Wakashū. The beginning of line 3 is hard to read in the source as displayed and is here read ne o zo naku.

Line 1 means "remembering," six syllables, taking up "I have recalled" in the preceding poem.
Line 2 means "all through the night," taking up "waking in the night" of the preceding poem.
Line 3 means "I weep aloud," zo concluded by naku, with a break after the line.
Line 4 means "of the past that was."
Line 5 means "the old events of the ages," ending on a noun as the object of line 1 in inversion.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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