Kiyoki se ni chidori tsuma yobi yama no ma ni kasumi tatsu ramu kamunabi no sato

清き瀬に千鳥妻呼び山の際に
霞立つらむ神なびの里

Roma-ji: Kiyoki se ni chidori tsuma yobi yama no ma ni kasumi tatsu ramu kamunabi no sato
English Translation: In the clear shallows
plovers call out to their mates;
between the hills
the haze must be rising now
in Kamunabi village
Meaning: In the clear shallows the plovers call to their mates, and between the hills the haze must be rising now—in the village of Kamunabi.
Commentary: Book Seven Miscellaneous Poems 1125

Headnote: "Thinking of My Old Home"
The poet imagines that in his old home, the village of Kamunabi, plovers must be calling to their mates in the clear shallows and haze rising between the hills. Picturing the spring scenery of the home he lives apart from, the poem is filled with nostalgia.
It is a poem under the heading "Thinking of My Old Home." Kamunabi village is thought to be Asuka, and the poem is read as the longing of someone who moved to the new capital at Nara for the old capital at Asuka. Following the preceding poems on plovers, the arrangement moves from the plover's cry to thoughts of home. The poet is unknown.

The first line, "In the clear shallows," names the pure stream.
The second line, "plovers call out to their mates," picks up the plovers of the two preceding poems, laying longing for home and for a loved one upon their calls.
The third line, "between the hills," is the same phrase as the first line of poem 1122 in this book.
In the fourth line, "ramu" expresses conjecture about the present: "the haze must be rising now."
The final line, "in Kamunabi village," names a village with a mountain or grove where a god dwells, here Asuka, and ends with a noun.
Source: Manyoshu
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