Yukue naku kakikomoru ni zo hikimayu no itou kokoro no hodo wa shiraruru - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

行方なくかきこもるにぞ引き繭の
いとふ心のほどは知らるる

Roma-ji: Yukue naku kakikomoru ni zo hikimayu no itou kokoro no hodo wa shiraruru
English Translation: Vanished without trace,
shut away so close inside,
like a silkworm's cocoon,
the thread of how you shun me
reveals how deep it runs
Meaning: Gone without a word, shut away like a silkworm in its cocoon, you have shown me, like a drawn thread, just how much you shun me.
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 475

From the way the other has shut himself away without a word of his whereabouts, like a silkworm in its cocoon, the poet sees just how much he shuns her. Linking cocoon, thread and itou, to shun, through pivot words and related words, the poem conveys the coldness of one who hides away and will not meet.
The author, Horikawa of Taikenmon'in, was a daughter of Minamoto no Akinaka, Head of the Council of Divinities, and served Taikenmon'in, Fujiwara no Shōshi, consort of Emperor Toba. One of her poems appears in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

First line, 'yukue naku', means with no trace of where you went.
Second line, 'kakikomoru ni zo', means by shutting yourself away completely, kaki being an intensifying prefix. The particle zo is answered by ruru in the final line.
Third line, 'hikimayu no', means of the cocoon from which thread is drawn, overlaying a silkworm shut in its cocoon on komoru in the second line and leading into ito in the fourth line.
Fourth line, 'itou kokoro no', is a pivot word in which ito means both the thread of the cocoon and itou, to shun, left in kana.
Final line, 'hodo wa shiraruru', means its depth is made known, closing with ruru, the attributive of the spontaneous ru, in answer to zo in the second line.
Author: Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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