Tamakushige Hakone no umi wa kekere are ya futayama ni kakete nani ka tayutau

玉くしげ箱根の海は心あれや
二山にかけて何かたゆたふ

Roma-ji: Tamakushige Hakone no umi wa kekere are ya futayama ni kakete nani ka tayutau
English Translation: Comb box of jewels—
does the lake of Hakone
have a heart of its own?
Between two mountains lying,
why does it sway and waver?
Meaning: Does Lake Hakone have a heart? Why else should it waver so, lying between two mountains?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 694

Headnote: "A poem composed on seeing the lake of Hakone when I visited the Two Shrines the following year"
Visiting the Two Shrines the next year, the poet saw Lake Hakone lying between two mountains and imagined its rippling water as a heart hesitating over which side to take.
It uses kekere, an eastern dialect word for "heart" from the Kokinshū eastern song about the hill of Saya lying heartless across the view of Kai's peaks. The Ruijū text gives a version in which the lake wavers between two provinces.

Line 1, tamakushige, "jewelled comb box," is a pillow word for hako.
Line 2 means "the lake of Hakone," Lake Ashi; against the Sea of Izu of 591 of this book, it sings of the lake in the mountains.
Line 3 means "does it have a heart?" kekere being eastern dialect for kokoro, with a break after the line.
Line 4 means "spanning two mountains," six syllables.
Line 5 means "why does it waver?" ka concluded by tayutau.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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