Nazo mo kaku mi ni kau bakari omouramu aimin koto mo hito no tame ka wa - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

なぞもかく身にかふばかり思ふらむ
逢ひ見むことも人のためかは

Roma-ji: Nazo mo kaku mi ni kau bakari omouramu aimin koto mo hito no tame ka wa
English Translation: Why is it that I
should love you so much, enough
to give my life for it,
when even our meeting
is not for another's sake
Meaning: Why do I love so much that I would give my own life for it, when even our meeting would be for no one else's sake?
Commentary: Book Seven Love Poems I 410

The poet asks why the love is so great that it would trade one's very self for it, when even meeting is not for anyone else's sake. The poem looks again at a fierce wish to meet even at the cost of one's life. The wording admits several readings.
Some manuscripts name Daishin of the Third Prince's Household as the author and give the headnote 'Composed on behalf of another on the sentiment of love at the Ungoji poetry contest.' It would then be a poem on that topic.
The first line of poem 389 in this book is also 'nazo mo kaku'.

First line, 'nazo mo kaku', means why is it so. It is the same as the first line of poem 389 in this book.
Second line, 'mi ni kau bakari', means enough to exchange for my self, a love one would trade life itself for.
Third line, 'omouramu', means do I love, taking up nazo in the first line and closing with the present conjecture ramu. The poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, 'aimin koto mo', means even meeting.
Final line, 'hito no tame ka wa', means is it for another's sake, the particle ka wa forming a rhetorical question meaning it is not.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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