Koko ni shite ie ya mo izuku shirakumo no tanabiku yama o koete kinikeri

ここにして家やもいづく白雲の
たなびく山を越えて来にけり

Roma-ji: Koko ni shite ie ya mo izuku shirakumo no tanabiku yama o koete kinikeri
English Translation: Here where I now stand,
where, I wonder, is my home?
Over the mountains
where the white clouds trail along
I have come so very far.
Meaning: Standing here, where can my home be? I have come all the way over mountains where the white clouds trail.
Commentary: Book Three Miscellaneous Poems 287

Headnote: "A poem composed by Lord Isonokami when the Emperor made a royal visit to Shiga," with the note "His name is missing"
This was composed while accompanying the Emperor on a royal visit to Shiga. Having crossed mountains trailing white clouds, the poet wonders in which direction his home now lies, voicing the forlornness of travel far from the capital. One view places the visit on Empress Genshō's journey to Mino in Yōrō 1 (717).
There is no settled view on who "Lord Isonokami" was. Kyō was an honorific for high officials of the third rank and above, and he has been identified as Isonokami no Maro, Isonokami no Otomaro, and others.

First line "Here where I now stand" means "being here."
Second line "where, I wonder, is my home": ya mo strengthens the question, and the sentence breaks here.
Third line "Over the mountains" introduces the distant scene with the white clouds.
Fourth line "where the white clouds trail along": tanabiku means clouds stretching in long bands.
Fifth line "I have come so very far": nikeri voices realization, as he feels anew how far he is from the capital.
Author: Lord Isonokami
Source: Manyoshu
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