Iwami no ya takatsunoyama no ko no ma yori waga furu sode o imo mitsuramu ka

石見のや高角山の木の間より
我が振る袖を妹見つらむか

Roma-ji: Iwami no ya takatsunoyama no ko no ma yori waga furu sode o imo mitsuramu ka
English Translation: In Iwami land,
from between the trees that grow
on Mount Takatsuno,
my sleeve that I wave to her—
has my dear one seen it now?
Meaning: Through the trees of Mount Takatsuno in Iwami, I wave my sleeve to her—has my beloved seen it?
Commentary: Book Two Love Poems 132

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems by Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro when he parted from his wife in the province of Iwami and came up to the capital, two envoys"
On his way up from Iwami to the capital, the poet wonders whether his wife has seen the sleeve he waved through the trees on Mount Takatsuno. Waving the sleeve was a gesture of farewell, believed to call the other's spirit.
The sequence Hitomaro composed when he parted from his wife in Iwami and traveled up to the capital is known as the Iwami love poems and is famous as one of his masterpieces. This is the first of the two envoys attached to the long poem 131; taking up that poem's closing cry, "bow down, you mountains," it looks back across the hills toward his wife's village.
The author, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, was a court poet active in the reigns of Empress Jitō and Emperor Monmu. A master of the long poem and the elegy, he is the representative poet of the Man'yōshū and was later revered as the Saint of Poetry.
Poem 134 of this book is a variant of this poem from another text, and 139 is an envoy of similar content attached to a variant long poem; the three are set side by side with small differences of wording.

In the first line, "iwami no ya," ya is an interjectory particle that smooths the rhythm. In 139 it reads "iwami no umi."
In the second line, "takatsunoyama no," Mount Takatsuno is a mountain in Iwami whose location is disputed.
The third line, "ko no ma yori," means "from between the trees." In 134 it reads "ko no ma yu mo."
The fourth line, "waga furu sode o," means "the sleeve I wave," a gesture that mourns the parting and seeks to draw his wife's heart to him.
In the final line, "imo mitsuramu ka," tsu is perfective, ramu present conjecture, and ka interrogative: has she seen it by now?
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Source: Manyoshu
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