Okie yuki e o yuki ima ya imo ga tame waga sunadoreru mofushi tsukabuna

沖辺行き辺を行き今や妹がため
我が漁れる藻臥束鮒

Roma-ji: Okie yuki e o yuki ima ya imo ga tame waga sunadoreru mofushi tsukabuna
English Translation: Out toward the offing,
and along the shore I went;
now, my dear, for you,
here is what I've caught myself,
fist-long crucians from the weeds
Meaning: Going out toward the offing and along the shore, I have caught these for you, my dear: little crucian carp, a fist long, that lay hidden in the waterweeds.
Commentary: Book Four Love Poems 625

Headnote: "A poem sent by Prince Takayasu to a maiden with a parcel of crucian carp; Prince Takayasu was later granted the surname Ōhara no Mahito"
Prince Takayasu wrote this poem when he sent a maiden a parcel of crucian carp. Going out to the offing and along the shore, he says, he has caught for her these little carp that lay hidden in the weeds, showing the care he put into the gift. It has the light touch proper to a poem accompanying a present.
The author, Prince Takayasu, was a Nara-period official of royal descent who served as Governor of Settsu among other posts and was later granted the surname Ōhara no Mahito.

First line, "Out toward the offing," means going out toward the open sea.
Second line, "and along the shore I went," means going along the shore, and now at last, with ya adding feeling.
Third line, "now, my dear, for you," means for your sake.
Fourth line, "here is what I've caught myself," uses sunadoru, "to catch fish": that I have caught.
Fifth line, "fist-long crucians from the weeds," names crucian carp a fist long that lay in the waterweeds, ending on a noun.
Author: Prince Takayasu
Source: Manyoshu
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