Wagimoko o hayami hamakaze yamato naru a o matsu tsubaki fukazaru na yume

我妹子を早見浜風大和なる
我を松椿吹かざるなゆめ

Roma-ji: Wagimoko o hayami hamakaze yamato naru a o matsu tsubaki fukazaru na yume
English Translation: O swift shore breeze—swift
as my longing to see her—
in Yamato, where
pine and camellia wait for me,
never fail to blow on them!
Meaning: O shore wind blowing so swiftly—swift as my longing to see my dear wife—never forget to blow upon the pine and camellia that wait for me in Yamato!
Commentary: Book One Miscellaneous Poems 73

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When the late Emperor journeyed to the Naniwa Palace: a poem by Prince Naga"
Calling to the swift wind on the shore at Naniwa, the prince asks it to blow upon the pine and camellia waiting for him in Yamato and carry his feelings to his wife. With hayami carrying "eager to see" and matsu ("pine") carrying "wait," the stacked wordplay deftly expresses his love for her.
Prince Naga was a son of Emperor Tenmu; his mother was Princess Ōe, a daughter of Emperor Tenji, and Prince Yuge was his full younger brother. He left poems marked by wit and dignity.

The first line, "my dear wife," is the object of the mi ("see") in hayami in the second line.
In the second line, hayami means swift: "the swift shore wind." Read with the first line, "my wife, eager to see her," it carries a double sense. Like "come, let me see my wife" in the Mount Izami of poem 44 in this book, it uses the "wife ... see" pattern to load a scene with longing.
In the third line, naru is the attributive of the auxiliary of existence: "that are in Yamato."
In the fourth line, matsu ("pine") puns on "wait": "to the pine and camellia that wait for me." They seem to be trees in the garden at home, overlaid with his wife's image.
In the last line, na forbids and yume means "by no means": "never fail to blow." The layered negatives strengthen his wish that the wind carry his thoughts to his wife.
Author: Prince Naga
Source: Manyoshu
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