Yoshino naru Natsumi no kawa no kawayodo ni kamo zo nakunaru yamakage ni shite

吉野なる菜摘の川の川淀に
鴨ぞ鳴くなる山蔭にして

Roma-ji: Yoshino naru Natsumi no kawa no kawayodo ni kamo zo nakunaru yamakage ni shite
English Translation: There in Yoshino,
on the river of Natsumi,
in its quiet pool,
I hear the wild ducks calling
in the shadow of the hills.
Meaning: In Yoshino, in a still pool of the Natsumi River, I hear the wild ducks calling from the mountain's shade.
Commentary: Book Three Miscellaneous Poems 375

Headnote: "A poem composed by Prince Yuhara at Yoshino"
A landscape poem on the calling of wild ducks, heard from the mountain's shade, in a still pool of the Natsumi River in Yoshino. In the quiet where only their voices come from the shadows, unseen, the pure scenery of the deep Yoshino hills rises before us. It is a clear poem in Prince Yuhara's manner, captured with fine sensitivity. Natsumi lies a little upstream from Miyataki in Yoshino.
The poet, Prince Yuhara, was a son of Prince Shiki and a royal of the Nara period who left graceful and delicate poems.

First line "There in Yoshino": naru means "located in."
Second line "on the river of Natsumi": the Yoshino River near Natsumi.
Third line "in its quiet pool": kawayodo is where the river's water lies still.
Fourth line "I hear the wild ducks calling": zo is a binding particle concluded by naru, the auxiliary of inference by sound. The sentence breaks here.
Fifth line "in the shadow of the hills" gives the source of the sound afterward by inversion, leaving the stillness of the unseen as an afterglow.
Author: Prince Yuhara
Source: Manyoshu
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