Yo no hodoro idetsutsu kuraku tabi maneku nareba aga mune tachiyaku gotoshi

夜のほどろ出でつつ来らくたび数多く
なれば我が胸断ち焼くごとし

Roma-ji: Yo no hodoro idetsutsu kuraku tabi maneku nareba aga mune tachiyaku gotoshi
English Translation: In the dawning dark,
coming away time and again,
now that it has grown
many times, this heart of mine
is as though cut through and burned
Meaning: Now that I have so often come away in the half-light before dawn, my heart feels as if it were being cut and burned.
Commentary: Book Four Love Poems 755

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Fifteen more poems sent by Ōtomo no Sukune Yakamochi to the Elder Daughter of Sakanoue"
In the last of the fifteen, now that he has so often come away in the half-light before dawn, his heart feels as if cut and burned. Opening like the preceding poem with yo no hodoro, it voices the pain of parting in violent words. This too is thought to draw on Youxianku.
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, "In the dawning dark," opens as the preceding poem does.
Second line, "coming away time and again," uses kuraku, the nominalized form of ku: my coming out.
Third line, "now that it has grown," means repeated many times.
Fourth line, "many times, this heart of mine," means when it becomes so, my breast.
Fifth line, "is as though cut through and burned," means like being slashed and burned, closing the sequence with the violence of parting's pain.
Author: Otomo no Yakamochi
Source: Manyoshu
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