Kusamakura sa koso wa tabi no toko narame kesa shimo okite kaeru beshi ya wa - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

草枕さこそは旅の床ならめ
今朝しも起きてかへるべしやは

Roma-ji: Kusamakura sa koso wa tabi no toko narame kesa shimo okite kaeru beshi ya wa
English Translation: Pillowed on the grass,
this may be but a bed
along your journey,
yet must you rise and go home
on this of all mornings
Meaning: This may be no more than a bed on your journey, yet must you rise and go home on this, of all mornings?
Commentary: Book Nine Miscellaneous Poems I 564

This may indeed be just a bed on a journey, the poet says, but must you rise and go home this very morning? The poem expresses the wish to detain someone who would leave early after spending a single night.
It is composed in the same pattern as poem 557 in this book, sa koso wa ... me ... kaeru beshi ya wa, both holding back someone who would leave too soon. Where 557 used words associated with the bow to sing of one returning in spring, this poem sings of one who has passed a night on a traveler's bed.

First line, 'kusamakura', means a pillow of bound grass, a pillow word for journey.
Second line, 'sa koso wa tabi no', means surely a journey's, the particle koso answered by me in the third line. It follows the same pattern as sa koso wa sori no in the second line of poem 557.
Third line, 'toko narame', means it must be a bed, me, the realis of mu, answering koso in the second line and leading with a concessive turn to the lower verse.
Fourth line, 'kesa shimo okite', means rising this morning of all mornings, the particle shimo giving emphasis. Oki, rising, is tied to toko, bed, in the third line.
Final line, 'kaeru beshi ya wa', means should you go home? the rhetorical ya wa. It is the same final line as poem 557 in this book.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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