Tsukuyo ni wa kado ni idetachi yūke toi ashiura o zo seshi yukamaku o hori

月夜には門に出で立ち夕占問ひ
足占をぞせし行かまくを欲り

Roma-ji: Tsukuyo ni wa kado ni idetachi yūke toi ashiura o zo seshi yukamaku o hori
English Translation: On the moonlit nights
I would stand outside my gate,
ask the evening signs,
and would even count my steps,
longing so to go to you
Meaning: On moonlit nights I stood at my gate, asked the evening omens, and even read the signs in my footsteps, longing to go to you.
Commentary: Book Four Love Poems 736

Headnote: "Another poem by Yakamochi in reply to the Elder Daughter of Sakanoue"
Yakamochi answers the Elder Daughter's preceding poem: on moonlit nights he stood at his gate and consulted evening omens and footstep divination to see whether he might go to her. To her lament at sleeping alone, he replies that he too longed to come. It opens with "on the moonlit nights," taking up "in the moonlight shining so" of her poem.
The author, Ōtomo no Yakamochi, was the son of Ōtomo no Tabito and a poet thought to have been deeply involved in compiling the Man'yōshū. He later rose to the rank of Middle Counselor.

First line, "On the moonlit nights," takes up "in the moonlight shining so" in the fourth line of the preceding poem.
Second line, "I would stand outside my gate," means going out to stand at the gate.
Third line, "ask the evening signs," names yūke, divining fortune from the words of passersby at dusk.
Fourth line, "and would even count my steps," names ashiura, divination by counting steps; zo is closed by shi. The poem breaks after this line.
Fifth line, "longing so to go to you," uses yukamaku, the nominalized form of yukamu: wishing to go. By inversion it gives the purpose of the divination.
Author: Otomo no Yakamochi
Source: Manyoshu
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