Yonabari no ikai no yama ni fusu shika no tsuma yobu koe o kiku ga tomoshisa

吉隠の猪養の山に伏す鹿の
妻呼ぶ声を聞くが羨しさ

Roma-ji: Yonabari no ikai no yama ni fusu shika no tsuma yobu koe o kiku ga tomoshisa
English Translation: In Yonabari,
on the mountain of Ikai
the deer lying there
calling out for its mate:
how I envy hearing it
Meaning: How I envy the deer lying on Mount Ikai in Yonabari, as I hear it calling for its mate.
Commentary: Book Eight Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 1561

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Two poems composed by Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue at the estate of Tomi"
Hearing a deer on Mount Ikai in Yonabari calling for its mate, the poet envies the deer, which has someone to call. Lonely during her stay at the estate, she lays her own loneliness over the deer that can call to the one it loves.
The author, Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue, was a daughter of Ōtomo no Yasumaro and a half-sister of Ōtomo no Tabito. She was the aunt of Ōtomo no Yakamochi and later also his mother-in-law, and she left many poems in the Man'yōshū.

The first line names Yonabari, a place in present-day Sakurai in Nara, near the estate of Tomi.
The second line names a mountain in Yonabari.
The third line means "of the deer lying on the mountain."
The fourth line names the voice of the deer calling for its mate. Like the pheasant's "longing for its mate" in 1446 of this book, it sings of the voices of creatures seeking their mates.
The final line ends on a noun; "tomoshi" means enviable. The next poem, 1562, also calls the voice of geese calling their mates "enviable," so poems envying the calls of deer and geese stand side by side.
Author: Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue
Source: Manyoshu
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