Where do seaweeds grow,
Where the miru may be cut?
Row there with your pole—
Tell me where it lies for me,
O fisher boat of the sea.

Meaning

Where is the inlet where the seaweed called miru may be cut? Row your fishing boat there and show me the place, telling me, "Here it is."

Commentary

70. The Fisher Boat of the Sea

When a certain man returned from his duty as an official of the hunt, he lodged at the ferry crossing of the inlet of Ōyodo.
The poem was addressed to a young serving girl who attended the Saigū.

This episode serves as a later continuation of the events of section sixty-nine. Though both longed strongly to meet again, the man had returned without seeing her, and perhaps he could not give up hope. In the poem he asks where he might meet the Saigū and asks to be shown the place and guided there.

Ōyodo refers to a coastal inlet in what is now Taki District in Mie Prefecture.
"Sao sashi" carries a double meaning: to row a boat with a pole and also to point the way toward a direction.

Source

Ise Monogatari

Other

Where do seaweeds grow, Where the miru may be cut? Row there with your pole— Tell me where it lies for me, O fisher boat of the sea.

Where do seaweeds grow,
Where the miru may be cut?
Row there with your pole—
Tell me where it lies for me,
O fisher boat of the sea.