Hisakata no ame shirashinuru kimi yue ni hitsuki mo shirazu koiwataru kamo

ひさかたの天知らしぬる君故に
日月も知らず恋ひわたるかも

Roma-ji: Hisakata no ame shirashinuru kimi yue ni hitsuki mo shirazu koiwataru kamo
English Translation: For you, my lord, who
now rule the far-reaching heavens,
I long and long on,
not knowing how the days and months
go passing one by one.
Meaning: For you, my lord, who now rule the distant heavens, I go on longing, unaware of the passing of the days and months.
Commentary: Book Two Elegies 200

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems composed by Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro at the time of the temporary enshrinement of Prince Takechi at Kinoe, two short poems"
Thinking of Prince Takechi, who has died and now rules the heavens, he says he goes on longing for him without knowing how the days and months pass.
These are elegies Kakinomoto no Hitomaro composed when the body of Prince Takechi lay in state at the temporary shrine at Kinoe. The long poem 199 depicts the prince's exploits in the Jinshin War and is known as the longest poem in the Man'yōshū. Prince Takechi was Emperor Tenmu's eldest son, became Chancellor of the Realm under Empress Jitō, and died in the tenth year of her reign (696). This is the first of those two short poems.
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.

The first line, "hisakata no," is a pillow word for ame, "heaven."
The second line, "ame shirashinuru," means "who has come to rule the heavens," expressing death as ascending to heaven as a god. It shares the idea of "takahi shirashinu" in 202 of this book.
The third line, "kimi yue ni," means "because of you," referring to Prince Takechi.
The fourth line, "hitsuki mo shirazu," means "not knowing the days and months." Setting shirashi in the second line against shirazu in the fourth, it places the prince ruling the heavens beside the speaker lost in time.
In the final line, "koiwataru kamo," wataru means to continue and kamo is exclamatory: I go on longing.
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Source: Manyoshu
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