Tsuma mo araba tsumite tagemashi sami no yama no no e no uhagi suginikerazu ya

妻もあらば摘みて食げまし沙弥の山
野の上のうはぎ過ぎにけらずや

Roma-ji: Tsuma mo araba tsumite tagemashi sami no yama no no e no uhagi suginikerazu ya
English Translation: Had his wife been here,
she would have gathered, fed him—
on Sami's hill,
the starwort in the meadow,
has it not grown past its prime?
Meaning: Had his wife been with him, she would have picked it and fed it to him—but the starwort on the meadows of Mount Sami, has it not already passed its prime?
Commentary: Book Two Elegies 221

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems composed by Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro on seeing a dead man among the rocks on the island of Samine in Sanuki, two short poems"
If his wife had been there, she would have picked the starwort of the fields and fed it to him, but even the starwort is now past its prime; the poem pities a traveler who died with no one to care for him.
These are elegies Kakinomoto no Hitomaro composed on seeing a traveler who had died lying among the rocks on the island of Samine in Sanuki, two short poems appended to the long poem 220. Samine is taken to be Shamijima in present-day Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture. In the long poem, having put in at the island to escape the wind on a sea journey, he sees the dead man pillowed on the rocky shore and thinks of his family. 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.

In the first line, "tsuma mo araba," ba is conditional: if his wife were here.
In the second line, "tsumite tagemashi," tagu means to eat and mashi is counterfactual: she would have picked it and fed it to him. The poem pauses here.
The third line, "sami no yama," refers to the hill on the island of Samine.
In the fourth line, "no no e no uhagi," uhagi is the starwort eaten as a spring green.
The final line, "suginikerazu ya," means "has it not passed its prime?" lamenting that time has gone by with no one to tend the dead man.
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Source: Manyoshu
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