Waga seko o miyako ni yarite shiogama no magaki no shima no matsu zo koishiki - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

我が背子を都にやりて塩竈の
籬の島のまつぞ恋しき

Roma-ji: Waga seko o miyako ni yarite shiogama no magaki no shima no matsu zo koishiki
English Translation: My dear husband
I have sent off to the capital,
and at Shiogama,
the isle of Magaki's pines,
how I long, as I wait there.
Meaning: I have sent my husband away to the capital, and like the pines of Magaki Island at Shiogama, I wait, and oh, how I long for him.
Commentary: Book Twenty Poems of the Bureau of Court Song 1089

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Songs of the East: Michinoku Song"
A woman who has sent her husband off to the capital speaks of her longing as she waits for his return, through the pines of Magaki Island at Shiogama. The great distance between the capital and Michinoku sharpens the ache of waiting. No author is recorded.
The Michinoku songs are folk songs of the province of Michinoku, today's Tōhoku region, forming the group of seven from poem 1087 to 1093. They are provincial songs taken up into court performance.

The first line, "my dear husband," uses seko, a woman's fond word for husband or lover.
The second line, "having sent to the capital," tells that he has gone up to the capital.
The third line, "Shiogama's," like the preceding poem, 1088, sets the Shiogama place name in its third line, continuing the famous sites of Michinoku.
The fourth line, "of Magaki Island," names the islet in Shiogama Bay; the phrase through "Magaki Island of Shiogama" leads to matsu.
The last line, "the pine, the waiting, how I long," plays on matsu, pine and to wait. The binding particle zo is resolved by the attributive koishiki.
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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