Amazakaru hina no arano ni kimi o okite omoitsutsu areba ikeru tomo nashi

天離る鄙の荒野に君を置きて
思ひつつあれば生けるともなし

Roma-ji: Amazakaru hina no arano ni kimi o okite omoitsutsu areba ikeru tomo nashi
English Translation: Far beneath the sky,
in the wild fields of the provinces,
I have left you, love,
and as I go on thinking,
I feel I am no longer alive.
Meaning: I have left you in a wild field of the far provinces, remote beneath the sky, and as I keep thinking of you, I no longer feel that I am alive.
Commentary: Book Two Elegies 227

Headnote: "A poem in another text reads"
Having left her husband buried in a wild field in the distant provinces, the speaker says that thinking of him she no longer feels alive, a lament of one left behind.
The headnote reads "a poem in another text," and the poem is appended at the end of the group on Hitomaro's death. A left note says that its author is unknown, but that an old text places it here.
The author is recorded in the left note as unknown. From its content, it appears to be spoken from the standpoint of Hitomaro's wife.

The first line, "amazakaru," means "far off beneath the sky" and is a pillow word for hina, "the provinces."
The second line, "hina no arano ni," means "in the wild fields of the countryside far from the capital."
The third line, "kimi o okite," means "having laid you to rest," and is hypermetric, with six syllables. It corresponds to "imo o okite" in 212 by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro in this book, forming an inverted pair of a husband burying his wife and a wife burying her husband.
The fourth line, "omoitsutsu areba," means "as I go on thinking," and is hypermetric, with eight syllables.
The final line, "ikeru tomo nashi," means "I have no sense of being alive," the same as the final line of 215 in this book.
Source: Manyoshu
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