Shinonome no akeyuku sora mo kaeru ni wa namida ni kururu mono ni zo arikeru - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

しののめの明けゆく空も帰るには
涙にくるるものにぞありける

Roma-ji: Shinonome no akeyuku sora mo kaeru ni wa namida ni kururu mono ni zo arikeru
English Translation: Even the dawn sky
as it brightens into day,
when I must go home,
grows dark before my eyes with tears:
that, I find, is how it is
Meaning: Even the sky at daybreak, brightening into morning, turns dark with tears when I must leave for home; so it is, I have come to know.
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 423

Even the brightening sky at dawn, the poet says, looks dark as if night had fallen, clouded by tears, when he must leave his beloved after a night together. Setting the dawning sky against eyes darkened by tears, the poem conveys the pain of the morning parting.
Poem 480 in this book also sings of the morning parting, saying that nothing can compare with the feelings of the morning one returns home.

First line, 'shinonome no', means of the dawn.
Second line, 'akeyuku sora mo', means even the sky growing light, forming a contrast of light and dark with kururu in the fourth line.
Third line, 'kaeru ni wa', means when I return home from my beloved, referring to the parting on the morning after a night together.
Fourth line, 'namida ni kururu', is a pivot word in which kururu means both the day growing dark and the eyes dimmed by tears, left in kana.
Final line, 'mono ni zo arikeru', means so it was, the particle zo answered by the attributive keru of the exclamatory keri.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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