GSS 799
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返ごとも侍ざりければ、又かさねてつかはしける
There was no answer, so again he sent this.
[ 紀友則 ]
[Ki no Tomonori]
見るもなく めもなき海の いそにいでゝ かへる＼／"も 怨つるかな
I go into the rocky beach with no seaweed, and again and again look at the bay. (I go to your house where you do not look at my letters nor do I have any chance of meeting you, and again again I return with a grudge.)
Textual Variants
- 返ごと] かへし（雲）
- 又かさねて] かさねて（堀・雲・坊・承・正）
- いそ] はま（安・堀・雲・承・正・正保ィ・八*・旧国ィ・六帖）
- かへるがへる] かへすがへす（雲・慶・新ィ・六帖・家集）
Other Sources
- 古今和歌六帖２１１２・恨み・とものり（ある本）. Second line めもなくうらも. Third line はまにいでて. Fourth line かへすがへすも.
- 友則集３７. Prose preface かへりごとのなければ、また. Third line しまにいでて. Fourth line かへすがへすも.
Notes
- 見るのなく
- The woman won't look at his letters, and there is no seaweed(海松) in the sea.
- めもなき
- A play on 海布（め）, another kind of seaweed, and 目. 「(私を見るあなたの)目」（新大系）「逢う機会もない」（全釈）
- 海
- A play on 憂み.
- かへるがへる
- "Over and over", but also 帰る.「波の詞にかへると云事あれば、それにひびかせられたるにても有るべし」（新抄）
- 怨み
- Also 浦見.
Analysis
This poem is similar to the last one; Tomonori again uses seaside imagery. This time there is a dense web of (common) wordplays and associated words involving the ocean.
