Koishisa o imo shirurame ya tabine shite yama no shizuku ni sode nurasu to wa - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

恋しさを妹知るらめや旅寝して
山の雫に袖濡らすとは

Roma-ji: Koishisa o imo shirurame ya tabine shite yama no shizuku ni sode nurasu to wa
English Translation: This longing of mine—
does my dear one know of it,
that on my journey
I sleep with my sleeves soaked through
by drops from the mountain trees
Meaning: Does my beloved know this longing of mine, that sleeping on the road I wet my sleeves with drops from the mountain trees?
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 482

Does his beloved know of this longing, the poet wonders, that sleeping on a journey he wets his sleeves with drops falling from the mountain trees? In the mountain drops that wet his sleeves on the road, he overlays tears for the beloved left in the capital.
Like the preceding poem, 481, it closes on the words sode nurasu. Love on a journey also appears in poems 385 and 405 of Book Seven.
The author, Akisue, is Fujiwara no Akisue. A son of Fujiwara no Takatsune, he rose to Master of the Office of Palace Repairs. Founder of the Rokujō Fujiwara house, he served Retired Emperor Shirakawa as a close retainer and was active as a poet.

First line, 'koishisa o', means this longing.
Second line, 'imo shirurame ya', means does my dear one know, with rame, the perfective form of the conjectural ramu, followed by the questioning particle ya, the poem breaking after the second line. By inversion it asks whether she knows what the lower verse tells.
Third line, 'tabine shite', means sleeping on a journey.
Fourth line, 'yama no shizuku ni', means with drops from the mountain trees, overlaid with tears.
Final line, 'sode nurasu to wa', means that I wet my sleeves, using the same words as sode nurasuramu in the final line of the preceding poem, 481.
Author: Fujiwara no Akisue
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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