Akikaze wa tsugite na fuki so wata no soko oki naru tama o te ni maku made ni

秋風は継ぎてな吹きそ海の底
沖なる玉を手に巻くまでに

Roma-ji: Akikaze wa tsugite na fuki so wata no soko oki naru tama o te ni maku made ni
English Translation: Autumn wind, I pray,
do not blow on without end—
in the ocean's depths
lies a pearl far out at sea,
till I wind it on my wrist
Meaning: Autumn wind, do not keep on blowing—not until I have wound on my wrist the pearl that lies far out in the depths of the sea.
Commentary: Book Seven Allegorical Poems 1327

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Jewels"
The poet asks the autumn wind not to keep blowing until he has wound on his wrist the pearl far out at sea. The pearl stands for a beloved woman and the autumn wind for obstacles to love; the poem prays that nothing will hinder him until she is his.
It is the last of the eleven poems on jewels. Asking the wind not to blow matches "wind, I pray you, do not blow" in the last line of poem 1319, and the third line, "in the ocean's depths," shares the opening of poems 1317 and 1323. The group on jewels begins with the white pearl on the sea floor in poem 1317 and closes with this wish to wind the pearl on the wrist. The poet is unknown.

The first line, "Autumn wind, I pray," addresses the wind.
The second line, "do not blow on without end," is a prohibition with "na ... so," and the poem pauses here.
The third line, "in the ocean's depths," is a pillow word for "oki," the same as the first line of poem 1323.
The fourth line, "lies a pearl far out at sea," stands for a beloved woman.
The final line, "till I wind it on my wrist," gives by inversion the limit of the wish; winding on the wrist also appears in poems 1325 and 1326.
Source: Manyoshu
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