Waga yado ni karaai maki ooshi karenuredo korizute mata mo makamu to zo omou

我がやどに韓藍蒔き生ほし枯れぬれど
懲りずてまたも蒔かむとぞ思ふ

Roma-ji: Waga yado ni karaai maki ooshi karenuredo korizute mata mo makamu to zo omou
English Translation: In my garden plot
I sowed the coxcomb and grew it,
though it withered up,
not deterred, yet once again
I am minded now to sow.
Meaning: I sowed coxcomb in my garden and raised it, but it withered—yet undeterred, I mean to sow it once again.
Commentary: Book Three Miscellaneous Poems 384

Headnote: "A poem by Yamabe no Sukune Akahito"
The poet sowed coxcomb in his garden and raised it, but it withered; still, undeterred, he means to sow it again. On the surface it is about growing flowers, but it is read as an allegory of a heart determined to try again at a love that once failed. Karaai is the old name for cockscomb, also used for dye.
The poet, Yamabe no Akahito, was a court poet of the reign of Shōmu who composed many poems on royal excursions and excelled in clear, limpid landscape verse. Later ages ranked him with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro as a "Saint of Poetry."

First line "In my garden plot": yado means the garden or the front of a house.
Second line "I sowed the coxcomb and grew it": karaai is cockscomb and oosu to raise. The line has two syllables too many.
Third line "though it withered up" means it has died.
Fourth line "not deterred, yet once again" means undaunted.
Fifth line "I am minded now to sow": zo is an emphatic binding particle concluded by the attributive omou, ending with a strong resolve that hints at love.
Author: Yamabe no Akahito
Source: Manyoshu
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