Wagimoko ga yado no tachibana ito chikaku ueteshi yue ni narazu wa yamaji

我妹子がやどの橘いと近く
植ゑてし故にならずはやまじ

Roma-ji: Wagimoko ga yado no tachibana ito chikaku ueteshi yue ni narazu wa yamaji
English Translation: My dear one's garden
with its mandarin orange tree,
planted, as it is,
so very near to my side—
it will not fail to bear fruit.
Meaning: The mandarin tree in your garden, planted so close beside me—it will surely not fail to bear fruit.
Commentary: Book Three Allegorical Poems 411

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "A poem on the mandarin orange by Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue" — "A poem in reply"
This poem belongs to the section of Allegorical Poems in Book Three. It answers Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue's mandarin poem. Since the mandarin tree in your garden is planted so close to me, he says, it will not fail to bear fruit—answering her worry with the assurance that he will surely be united with the daughter so near at hand. It responds by taking up "mandarin" and "planted" from her poem. The headnote gives no author's name, so the author cannot be fixed.

First line "My dear one's garden": wagimoko is an affectionate term for a woman, here Lady Sakanoue.
Second line "with its mandarin orange tree" takes up "mandarin... in my garden" and stands for her daughter.
Third line "so very near to my side": ito chikaku means very close.
Fourth line "planted, as it is" takes up "planted" from the preceding poem.
Fifth line "it will not fail to bear fruit": naru means to bear fruit and ji is negative conjecture, promising that love will be fulfilled.
Source: Manyoshu
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