Yama no i no iwa moru mizu ni kage mireba asamashige ni mo narinikeru kana - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

山の井の岩漏る水に影見れば
あさましげにもなりにけるかな

Roma-ji: Yama no i no iwa moru mizu ni kage mireba asamashige ni mo narinikeru kana
English Translation: In the mountain spring
where water seeps through the rocks,
when I see my face,
how wretched and how worn
I have come to look, alas
Meaning: When I look at my reflection in the mountain spring that seeps between the rocks, how shockingly worn and wretched I have become.
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 428

Looking at his reflection in the water seeping from the rocks of a mountain spring, the poet finds that love has worn him down to a shockingly wretched figure. He laments the haggardness of love's suffering, discovered in the mirror of the water.
Since the poem quoted in the Kana Preface of the Kokinshū, which sings of the mountain spring at Asaka that reflects even shadows, yama no i has been an image tied to shallowness, and that echo is heard in this poem's asamashi as well.

First line, 'yama no i no', means of the mountain spring, a pool of welling water in the hills.
Second line, 'iwa moru mizu ni', means in the water seeping between the rocks.
Third line, 'kage mireba', means when I look at my reflection, kage being my own image in the water.
Fourth line, 'asamashige ni mo', means shockingly wretched, echoing the shallowness of the mountain spring. It uses the same word as asamashiku in the first line of poem 463 and asamashi ya in the first line of the closing poem, 515.
Final line, 'narinikeru kana', means I have become so, piling up the perfective nu, the exclamatory keri and the particle kana.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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