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Kokinshu #378
Sunday, 7 April 2013 10:21 Written when left behind by a beloved friend traveling to the eastern provinces.
Even if you are
among the far-distant clouds,
this traveling heart
is not left behind -- and so
we only seem separated.(Grammar issue: I do not understand what's going on in the final verb, which has inflections my grammar books say shouldn't go together -- I translate it as if it were muyubekarunari, with a -nari of assertion, but I'm not confident enough of this reading to actually emend the text.) (oops)
kumoi ni mo
kayou kokoro no
okureneba
wakaru to hito ni
muyubakarinari
---L.
Even if you are
among the far-distant clouds,
this traveling heart
is not left behind -- and so
we only seem separated.
—5 April 2013
Original by Fujiwara no Fukayabu. Back to male friends parting, this time in more private modes -- the "beloved friend" part indicating that this is a more private affair than the official sendings off of previous poems. Compare #367. Omitted-but-understood words: "if you are." The verb for "traveling" in the poem implies going back and forth (the modern sense is "commuting"), giving an implied image of being used as a messenger, which doesn't quite fit the context.kumoi ni mo
kayou kokoro no
okureneba
wakaru to hito ni
muyubakarinari
---L.