Iwato waru tajikara mo ga mo tayowaki omina ni shi areba sube no shiranaku

岩戸破る手力もがも手弱き
女にしあればすべの知らなく

Roma-ji: Iwato waru tajikara mo ga mo tayowaki omina ni shi areba sube no shiranaku
English Translation: If only I had
strength of arm to break the rock door!
Weak and frail am I,
being but a woman, so
what to do, I do not know.
Meaning: If only I had the strength of arm to break open that rock door! But I am only a weak woman, and I do not know what to do.
Commentary: Book Three Elegies 419

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Three poems composed by Princess Tamochi when Prince Kafuchi was buried on Mount Kagami in the province of Buzen"
This is the last of Princess Tamochi's three poems, closing the sequence. If only she had the strength to break the tomb's rock door and bring him back—but, a frail woman, she can do nothing: grief with nowhere to go. It draws on the myth in which the god Tajikarao opened the Heavenly Rock Cave where the Sun Goddess had hidden, taking up the "rock door" of the preceding poem.
Princess Tamochi's three poems are a sequence of elegies for Prince Kafuchi, who died in Tsukushi as Governor-General of Dazaifu and was buried on Mount Kagami in Buzen.
The poet, Princess Tamochi, is thought to have been the wife of Prince Kafuchi, a woman of the early Nara period, but little is known of her.

First line "to break the rock door" takes up "rock door" from the preceding poem.
Second line "If only I had strength of arm": tajikara is strength of arm and mogamo a particle of wishing, recalling Tajikarao, who opened the Heavenly Rock Cave. The sentence breaks here.
Third line "Weak and frail am I" has only four syllables.
Fourth line "being but a woman": shi is emphatic.
Fifth line "what to do, I do not know": sube is a means, and naku the nominal negative, ending in lament.
Author: Princess Tamochi
Source: Manyoshu
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