Kasugayama asa tatsu kumo no inu hi naku mimaku no hoshiki kimi ni mo aru kamo

春日山朝立つ雲の居ぬ日なく
見まくの欲しき君にもあるかも

Roma-ji: Kasugayama asa tatsu kumo no inu hi naku mimaku no hoshiki kimi ni mo aru kamo
English Translation: On Kasuga's slopes,
as the morning clouds arise
never missing a day,
so each day I long to see you,
you, the one I hold so dear
Meaning: As the morning clouds never fail a single day to rest on Mount Kasuga, so there is no day I do not long to see you.
Commentary: Book Four Love Poems 584

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Four poems sent in reply by the Elder Daughter of the Ōtomo household at Sakanoue to Ōtomo no Sukune Yakamochi"
In the last of the four, with the clouds rising every morning on Mount Kasuga as its preface, she says there is no day she does not long to see him. Turning from the reproach of the preceding poem, she frankly states her unchanging devotion and closes the sequence.
The author, Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Ōiratsume, was the daughter of Ōtomo no Sukunamaro and Lady Sakanoue, and later became Ōtomo no Yakamochi's principal wife.

First line, "On Kasuga's slopes," names the mountain east of the capital at Nara, visible from the Sakanoue house.
Second line, "as the morning clouds arise," names the clouds that rise in the morning.
Third line, "never missing a day," uses iru, "to rest, linger," of clouds: there is no day they do not settle there. The first three lines are taken as a preface.
Fourth line, "so each day I long to see you," uses mimaku, the nominalized form of mimu: I wish to see you.
Fifth line, "you, the one I hold so dear," closes with the exclamatory kamo: such are you to me.
Author: Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Ōiratsume
Source: Manyoshu
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