Sahoyama o ōni mishikado ima mireba yama natsukashi mo kaze fuku na yume

佐保山をおほに見しかど今見れば
山なつかしも風吹くなゆめ

Roma-ji: Sahoyama o ōni mishikado ima mireba yama natsukashi mo kaze fuku na yume
English Translation: Mount Saho I saw
with a careless passing glance,
but now as I look,
how dear the mountain has grown—
wind, never blow upon it!
Meaning: I used to look at Mount Saho without a thought, but looking now, how dear the mountain has grown—wind, never blow on it!
Commentary: Book Seven Allegorical Poems 1333

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Mountains"
Mount Saho, once looked at without a thought, now draws the poet's heart, and he bids the wind never blow. The mountain stands for a woman he once paid no heed, and the wind for what might come between them; the poem shows a love newly awakened and the wish that it not be disturbed.
It is the third poem on mountains. The fourth line, "how dear the mountain has grown," answers "so dear the mountain grew" in the fourth line of the preceding poem. Bidding the wind not to blow is shared with poems 1319 and 1327 on jewels, and the ending "na yume" takes the same form as "never rope them off" in the last line of poem 1252 in this book. Mount Saho lies northeast of the Heijō capital. The poet is unknown.

The first line, "Mount Saho I saw," names the mountain northeast of the Heijō capital, standing for a woman.
The second line, "with a careless passing glance," means looked at without a thought.
The third line, "but now as I look," contrasts with the past of the second line.
The fourth line, "how dear the mountain has grown," pauses the poem and corresponds to the fourth line of the preceding poem.
In the final line, "wind, never blow upon it!" "na" forbids and "yume" strengthens the prohibition, the same form as the last line of poem 1252 in this book.
Source: Manyoshu
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