Azusayumi kaeru ashita no omoi ni wa hikikurabubeki koto no naki kana - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

梓弓帰る朝の思ひには
引きくらぶべきことのなきかな

Roma-ji: Azusayumi kaeru ashita no omoi ni wa hikikurabubeki koto no naki kana
English Translation: Like a catalpa bow,
the sorrow of the morning
when I must return,
there is nothing I could draw
to set against it at all
Meaning: The sorrow of the morning when I must leave you behind, like a catalpa bow springing back, has nothing to compare with it.
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 480

Nothing, the poet says, can compare with the pain of the morning he must leave his beloved. Stringing together words related to the catalpa bow, the poem presents the pain of the morning parting as beyond compare.
Poem 423 in this book also sings of the pain of the morning parting, saying that the brightening sky grows dark with tears.
The author, Akisuke, is Fujiwara no Akisuke. A son of Fujiwara no Akisue, founder of the Rokujō Fujiwara house, he rose to Master of the Western Capital Office and compiled the Shikawakashū at the command of Retired Emperor Sutoku.

First line, 'azusayumi', is a bow made of catalpa wood, used here as a pillow word leading into kaeru, to return. It is a word related to hiki in the fourth line.
Second line, 'kaeru ashita no', means of the morning I return from my beloved, referring to the morning parting.
Third line, 'omoi ni wa', means to the feeling.
Fourth line, 'hikikurabubeki', means that could be set beside it, hiki echoing the drawing of a bow, a word related to the catalpa bow in the first line.
Final line, 'koto no naki kana', means there is nothing, closing with the exclamatory kana.
Author: Fujiwara no Akisuke
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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