Kimi matsu to waga koioreba waga yado no sudare ugokashi aki no kaze fuku

君待つと我が恋ひ居れば我が宿の
簾動かし秋の風吹く

Roma-ji: Kimi matsu to waga koioreba waga yado no sudare ugokashi aki no kaze fuku
English Translation: Waiting for my lord,
as I sit here in longing,
at my dwelling's door
the bamboo blind stirs and sways,
and the autumn wind blows through
Meaning: As I sit longing and waiting for you, the bamboo blind of my house stirs, and it is only the autumn wind blowing.
Commentary: Book Four Love Poems 488

Headnote: "A poem composed by Princess Nukata thinking of the Ōmi Emperor"
This poem was composed in longing for the Ōmi Emperor, Emperor Tenji. As the poet waits eagerly for her lord, the bamboo blind stirs faintly and for a moment seems to announce his coming, but it is only the autumn wind. The hope roused by the moving blind and the loneliness of finding it was only the wind come through without being stated. It has been compared to the boudoir laments of Six Dynasties Chinese poetry and is celebrated as one of the most refined love poems in the Man'yōshū.
It forms a pair with the next poem by Princess Kagami, and the two appear again in Book Eight as 1606 and 1607.
The author, Princess Nukata, was the leading woman poet of the late seventh century. She bore Princess Tōchi to Prince Ōama (later Emperor Tenmu) and is said to have later served Emperor Tenji.

First line, "Waiting for my lord," uses the particle to, carrying the sense "thinking that," to set out the waiting heart at once. Following 484 at the head of the book, it again takes up waiting, a central theme of Book Four.
Second line, "as I sit here in longing," uses -ba after the perfective form to mark a definite condition: just as I sit longing.
Third line, "at my dwelling's door," means my house; repeating "my" from the second line stresses that this is the waiting woman's own space.
Fourth line, "the bamboo blind stirs and sways," describes the blind being moved, a motion that suggests a visitor and briefly swells her hope.
Fifth line, "and the autumn wind blows through," reveals that what moved the blind was not her lord but the autumn wind. It ends quietly in the plain conclusive form, leaving loneliness in its wake. The next poem by Princess Kagami answers by taking up this very wind: "if only the wind."
Author: Princess Nukata
Source: Manyoshu
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