Utatane ni au to mitsuru wa utsutsu nite tsuraki o yume to omowamashikaba - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

うたた寝に逢ふと見つるは現にて
つらきを夢と思はましかば

Roma-ji: Utatane ni au to mitsuru wa utsutsu nite tsuraki o yume to omowamashikaba
English Translation: If only I could think
that meeting you in fitful sleep
was the waking world,
and that all your cruelty
was nothing but a dream
Meaning: If only I could believe that the meeting I saw in my fitful sleep was real, and that your cruelty was the dream.
Commentary: Book Seven Love Poems I 415

The poet wishes the meeting seen in a fitful doze were real and the other's cruelty only a dream. Through the wish to exchange dream and waking, the poem pleads the pain of reality.
Some manuscripts name Fujiwara no Kinnori as the author and give the headnote 'Sent to one who was cold to him, after dreaming of meeting.' It would then be a poem sent after such a dream.
Poem 354 in this book takes the fleeting dream as life itself, while this poem wishes to exchange dream and waking, so the two form a pair. Poems 365 and 381 in this book also sing of dream and waking.

First line, 'utatane ni', means in a fitful doze.
Second line, 'au to mitsuru wa', means what I saw as meeting, using the attributive of the perfective tsu. It answers the first line 'au to mite' of poem 354 in this book.
Third line, 'utsutsu nite', means being reality. Like 'utsutsu' in poems 354 and 365 in this book, it sets dream against waking.
Fourth line, 'tsuraki o yume to', means your cruelty as a dream, exchanging the dream and waking of the second and third lines.
Final line, 'omowamashikaba', means if only I could think so, the irrealis of the contrary-to-fact mashi with ba, left unfinished to express a wish.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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