Omoiizu ya arishi sono yo no kuretake wa asamashikarishi fushidokoro kana - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思ひ出づやありしその夜の呉竹は
あさましかりしふし所かな

Roma-ji: Omoiizu ya arishi sono yo no kuretake wa asamashikarishi fushidokoro kana
English Translation: Do you remember
that night as it once was, how
the black bamboo
gave us such a shabby,
knotty place to lie
Meaning: Do you remember it, that night we had? The place where we lay, like the knots of the black bamboo, was shabby beyond belief.
Commentary: Book Seven Love Poems I 362

The poet asks whether the other remembers that night, when the place they lay, named for the knots of the black bamboo, was astonishingly poor. The meanness of the bed they shared is sung as a memory all the harder to forget.
Some manuscripts give a headnote saying that it was sent some days after the poet had spoken with someone at a certain place.
The author, Kinzane, is Fujiwara no Kinzane. A son of Fujiwara no Sanesue, he served as Master of the Crown Prince's Household and rose to Provisional Major Counselor, and was one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.

First line, 'omoiizu ya', means do you remember, the particle ya posing a question. The line has an extra syllable, and the poem breaks after it.
Second line, 'arishi sono yo no', means of that night, using the attributive of the past ki to point to the night they spent together. Yo, night, echoes yo, the space between the knots of a bamboo, forming a related word with the black bamboo in the third line.
Third line, 'kuretake wa', is a kind of bamboo said to have come from China.
Fourth line, 'asamashikarishi', means astonishingly poor. It uses the same word as the first line 'asamashi ya' of poems 372 and 396 in this book.
Final line, 'fushidokoro kana', is a pivot word in which fushi means both fushi, the knot of a bamboo, and fushi, lying down, left in kana. The particle kana adds a note of exclamation.
Author: Fujiwara no Kinzane
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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