Uete inishi akita karu made miekoneba kesa hatsukari no ne ni zo nakinuru - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

植ゑていにし秋田刈るまで見えこねば
今朝初雁の音にぞなきぬる

Roma-ji: Uete inishi akita karu made miekoneba kesa hatsukari no ne ni zo nakinuru
English Translation: You planted the fields
and went away, and did not come
though autumn's rice is reaped;
this morning, with the first geese,
I have cried out loud in tears
Meaning: You planted the rice and went away, and even now that the autumn fields are being harvested you have not come to see me. This morning, as the first wild geese cried, I too cried aloud.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 776

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The one who planted the rice in spring and left has not returned even at the autumn harvest, so the speaker weeps along with the cry of the first geese. The farming cycle from planting to reaping shows the length of the wait, and her crying is matched with the first geese that herald autumn.

In the first line ini is from inu, "to go away": "planted and left." The line is hypermetric at six syllables.
The second line, "until the autumn rice is reaped," shows how long she has waited.
In the third line mie ku means to come and be seen, and neba gives the established negative condition: since you have not come.
The fourth line names the first geese arriving this morning, signaling deepening autumn. Karu, "reap," echoes kari, "geese."
In the last line ne means voice, and naki means both the geese crying and her weeping. Zo is resolved by nuru, attributive of the perfective nu.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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