Suma no ama no shioyaki goromo osa o arami madō ni are ya kimi ga kimasanu - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

須磨の海人の塩焼き衣をさをあらみ
まどほにあれや君が来まさぬ

Roma-ji: Suma no ama no shioyaki goromo osa o arami madō ni are ya kimi ga kimasanu
English Translation: As the salt-burning
robes of fishers at Suma
are so coarsely woven,
have we grown so far apart
that you no longer visit?
Meaning: The robes worn by the salt-makers of Suma are coarsely woven, their threads far apart. Is it because our bond, too, has grown so loose that you no longer come to me?
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 758

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
From the coarse weave of a salt-maker's robe, the poem laments a lover whose visits have grown infrequent. The first three lines form a preface leading to madō, "far apart," turning from a simple seaside work garment to the grief of love.
Book Three of the Man'yōshū contains a poem likening the coarse wisteria robe of the Suma salt-makers to infrequent meetings, showing that this image was already old.

The first line names the fishers of Suma in Settsu, a place known for salt-making. The line is hypermetric.
The second line names the rough robe worn while boiling salt, the core of the preface.
In the third line osa is the reed of a loom, and the o ... mi construction gives the cause: because the reed is coarse.
In the fourth line madō means both a coarse weave and infrequent visits. Ya asks a question, resolved by the attributive in the last line.
The last line, kimasanu, is the honorific kimasu with negative zu in attributive form: you do not come.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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