Idete inamu toki shi wa aramu o kotosara ni tsumagoi shitsutsu tachite inubeshi ya

出でていなむ時しはあらむをことさらに
妻恋しつつ立ちていぬべしや

Roma-ji: Idete inamu toki shi wa aramu o kotosara ni tsumagoi shitsutsu tachite inubeshi ya
English Translation: There must be a time
for you to rise and go away;
yet so pointedly,
longing for your wife at home,
should you leave us now, like this
Meaning: Surely there will be another time for you to leave; must you get up and go just now, so pointedly longing for your wife?
Commentary: Book Four Love Poems 585

Headnote: "A poem by Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue"
A poem detaining a man who is leaving, it asks whether there will not be another time to go; must he rise and leave now, so pointedly longing for his wife? It voices reproach, touched with play, toward a man whose thoughts are with the wife at home. Some take it as a banquet piece to hold back a guest trying to leave.
The author, Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue, was a daughter of Ōtomo no Yasumaro and half-sister of Ōtomo no Tabito. She left many poems in the Man'yōshū and is esteemed as a leading woman poet.

First line, "There must be a time," runs to six syllables: to go out and away.
Second line, "for you to rise and go away," uses the concessive o: though there will surely be another time.
Third line, "yet so pointedly," means on purpose, especially now.
Fourth line, "longing for your wife at home," names tsumagoi, longing for a wife, reading the departing man's heart.
Fifth line, "should you leave us now, like this," uses beshi and the rhetorical ya: ought you to go? Surely not.
Author: Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue
Source: Manyoshu
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