Tonikaku ni ana sadamena no yo no naka ya yorokobu mono areba waburu mono ari

とにかくにあな定めなの世の中や
喜ぶ者あればわぶる者あり

Roma-ji: Tonikaku ni ana sadamena no yo no naka ya yorokobu mono areba waburu mono ari
English Translation: One way or the other,
ah, how uncertain it is,
this world of ours!
Where there is one who rejoices,
there is one who grieves.
Meaning: One way or another, ah, how uncertain this world is! Where someone rejoices, there is someone else who grieves.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 711

Headnote: "On the theme that the human heart is inconstant"
On the theme that the human heart is inconstant, the poet exclaims how unsettled the world is: where one rejoices, another grieves. He states plainly the fickleness of human life and how joy and sorrow stand back to back. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a sign of praise.
The Ruijū text ends the headnote with "composed on" and spells lines 2 and 4 differently.

Line 1 is the same as the preceding poem's.
Line 2 means "ah, how unsettled," ana an interjection.
Line 3 means "this world!" ya exclamatory, with a break after the line.
Line 4 means "if there are those who rejoice," eight syllables.
Line 5 means "there are those who grieve," paired with line 4; taking up the destitute of the preceding poem, it sets the joyful beside the grieving.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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