Tsurugitachi mi ni torisou to ime ni mitsu nani no saga zo mo kimi ni awamu tame

剣大刀身に取り添ふと夢に見つ
何のさがぞも君に逢はむため

Roma-ji: Tsurugitachi mi ni torisou to ime ni mitsu nani no saga zo mo kimi ni awamu tame
English Translation: A sword and a blade,
close against my body held,
so I saw in dreams;
what can be the sign of it?
Is it that I'll meet with you
Meaning: I dreamed I held a sword close against my body; what can such an omen mean? Is it a sign that I will meet you?
Commentary: Book Four Love Poems 604

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Twenty-four poems sent by Lady Kasa to Ōtomo no Sukune Yakamochi"
She dreamed of holding a sword close against her body and, wondering what omen it could be, hopes it foretells a meeting with him. Against the belief of the time that dreams were portents, she reads keeping a sword close as a sign of lying close to a man.
The author, Lady Kasa, was a woman poet of the Nara period who sent many love poems to Ōtomo no Yakamochi. Little else is known of her.

First line, "A sword and a blade," names tsurugitachi, a sword; from wearing it on the body it also serves as a pillow word for "body," but here it is the sword seen in her dream.
Second line, "close against my body held," means holding it against me.
Third line, "so I saw in dreams," uses the perfective tsu: I saw it in a dream. The poem breaks after this line.
Fourth line, "what can be the sign of it?" uses saga, "omen, portent": what omen can it be? It breaks here too.
Fifth line, "Is it that I'll meet with you," interprets the dream herself: it must be so that I may meet you, closing in hope.
Author: Lady Kasa
Source: Manyoshu
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