Kasugayama asa iru kumo no ōhoshiku shiranu hito ni mo kouru mono kamo

春日山朝居る雲のおほほしく
知らぬ人にも恋ふるものかも

Roma-ji: Kasugayama asa iru kumo no ōhoshiku shiranu hito ni mo kouru mono kamo
English Translation: On Kasuga's slopes,
as the morning clouds hang low,
vague and dim, so I
for one whom I scarcely know
feel a longing all the same
Meaning: Like the clouds that hang on Mount Kasuga in the morning, vaguely and dimly I find myself longing even for one I hardly know.
Commentary: Book Four Love Poems 677

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Five poems sent by Nakatomi no Iratsume to Ōtomo no Sukune Yakamochi"
With the morning clouds on Mount Kasuga as its preface, she says one can come to long even for someone scarcely known. Like the Elder Daughter of Sakanoue's poem 584 in this book, it uses the morning clouds of Mount Kasuga as its preface, so poems on the same scene echo each other.
The author, Nakatomi no Iratsume, was a woman of the Nakatomi clan of whom little is known, one of the women who sent love poems to Ōtomo no Yakamochi.

First line, "On Kasuga's slopes," names the mountain east of the capital at Nara.
Second line, "as the morning clouds hang low," means clouds lingering in the morning, echoing "the morning clouds arise" in poem 584.
Third line, "vague and dim, so I," uses ōhoshiku, "hazily," taking up the preface.
Fourth line, "for one whom I scarcely know," means even for one I do not know well.
Fifth line, "feel a longing all the same," means so one comes to love, with the exclamatory kamo.
Author: Nakatomi no Iratsume
Source: Manyoshu
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