Akiyama ni otsuru momijiba shimashiku wa na chiri magai so imo ga atari mimu

秋山に落つる黄葉しましくは
な散り乱ひそ妹があたり見む

Roma-ji: Akiyama ni otsuru momijiba shimashiku wa na chiri magai so imo ga atari mimu
English Translation: O you colored leaves
falling on the autumn hills,
just for a while now
do not scatter in such a whirl—
let me see where my dear one lives.
Meaning: O colored leaves falling on the autumn hills, do not scatter and swirl for just a little while—let me look toward the place where my beloved lives.
Commentary: Book Two Love Poems 137

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"
He calls out to the colored leaves falling on the autumn hills, begging them not to scatter and swirl for a while so that he can see the place where his wife lives.
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 second of the two envoys attached to the long poem 135, taking up the scene in the long poem where the swirling leaves keep him from seeing his wife's sleeve clearly.
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.
A note records a variant giving the fourth line as "chiri na magai so." Here the main text is followed.

The first line, "akiyama ni," presents the autumn hills in color. Autumn hills also appear in 92 by Princess Kagami and 106 by Princess Ōku in this book.
The second line, "otsuru momijiba," means "the colored leaves that fall," the object of his address.
The third line, "shimashiku wa," means "for a little while."
In the fourth line, "na chiri magai so," na ... so expresses prohibition: do not scatter in confusion. Magau means to whirl so that things cannot be told apart. The poem pauses here.
In the final line, "imo ga atari mimu," mu expresses intention: let me look toward my wife's home.
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Source: Manyoshu
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