無き名にぞ人のつらさは知られける
忘られしには身をぞ恨みし
忘られしには身をぞ恨みし
- Roma-ji
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Nakina ni zo hito no tsurasa wa shirarekeru wasurareshi ni wa mi o zo urami shi
- English Translation
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It was from a rumor
without truth I came to know
how cold you could be;
when you once forgot me
it was myself that I blamed
- Meaning
- It was through a groundless rumor that I learned how heartless you are; when you forgot me before, I blamed only myself.
- Commentary
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Book Nine Miscellaneous Poems I 558
Through a groundless rumor, the poet says, he came to know how heartless the other is; when he was once forgotten, he blamed only himself. When forgotten, he thought it was his own fault, but when the other believed a baseless rumor about him, he learned for the first time how cold that person was, and the poem traces this change of heart.
The author, Kinzane, is Fujiwara no Kinzane. A son of the Acting Major Counselor Fujiwara no Sanesue, he rose to Acting Major Counselor. He was the father of Taikenmon'in Shōshi and one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.
First line, 'nakina ni zo', means through a groundless rumor, the particle zo answered by keru in the third line.
Second line, 'hito no tsurasa wa', means your heartlessness.
Third line, 'shirarekeru', means I came to know, the spontaneous ru followed by the attributive of keri, answering zo in the first line; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, 'wasurareshi ni wa', means when I was forgotten, the passive ru followed by the past ki.
Final line, 'mi o zo urami shi', means I resented myself, the particle zo answered by shi, the attributive of the past ki. Both upper and lower verses are built on a zo construction, balancing each other.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Kinzane
- Source
- Kinyo Wakashu
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