Uretaki ya shikohototogisu ima koso ba koe no karu gani kinaki toyomeme

うれたきや醜霍公鳥今こそば
声の嗄るがに来鳴き響めめ

Roma-ji: Uretaki ya shikohototogisu ima koso ba koe no karu gani kinaki toyomeme
English Translation: Oh, how galling you are,
wretched hototogisu!
Now, of all the times,
till your voice grows hoarse and cracked,
come and sing and make it ring!
Meaning: How galling you are, you wretched hototogisu! Now of all times you should come and sing till your voice grows hoarse, filling the air with song.
Commentary: Book Ten Summer Miscellaneous Poems 1951

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Birds"
This poem curses the hototogisu as "shikohototogisu," you wretched bird, for not singing when awaited, and demands that it sing now until its voice grows hoarse. The irritation at a bird that will not sing just when its voice is wanted, perhaps while waiting for a lover, shows in the fierce words. It can also be read as an affectionate curse, the reverse side of high expectation. In contrast to the preceding poems praising the bird's song, this one scolds the hototogisu.

In the first line, "uretaki ya," "uretashi" means galling and "ya" is exclamatory.
In the second line, "shikohototogisu," "shiko" is a prefix-like word of abuse: you worthless hototogisu.
In the third line, "ima koso ba," "koso" is an emphatic particle in kakari-musubi with "me" in the last line, and "ba" adds emphasis.
In the fourth line, "koe no karu gani," "gani" means to the extent that: till your voice grows hoarse.
In the last line, "kinaki toyomeme," "me" is the perfective of "mu," answering "koso," closing in a tone almost of command.
Source: Manyoshu
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