Au koto o tou ishigami no tsurenasa ni waga kokoro nomi ugokinuru kana - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

逢ふことを問ふ石神のつれなさに
我が心のみ動きぬるかな

Roma-ji: Au koto o tou ishigami no tsurenasa ni waga kokoro nomi ugokinuru kana
English Translation: I asked if we'd meet
of the stone god, but it stays
unmoved, cold as stone,
and it is my heart alone
that has been stirred and shaken
Meaning: I asked the stone god whether we would meet, but it stayed unmoved and cold, and only my own heart was stirred and shaken.
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 508

Though she asks the stone god whether they will meet, the stone does not move at all, and only her own heart is shaken. Through a god of divination asked by means of a stone, the poem sets the unmoving stone against the trembling heart, expressing the other's coldness and her own agitation.
Like poems 467 and 479 in this book, it sings of love through a god.
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, 'au koto o', means whether we shall meet.
Second line, 'tou ishigami no', means of the stone god I ask, seeming to draw on the belief that one could ask a stone about good or ill fortune.
Third line, 'tsurenasa ni', means at its unmoved calm, overlaid with the coldness of the beloved.
Fourth line, 'waga kokoro nomi', means only my heart, the particle nomi expressing limitation.
Final line, 'ugokinuru kana', means has been stirred, nuru, the attributive of the perfective nu, followed by the exclamatory kana, pairing with tsurenasa in the third line.
Author: Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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