Makenagaku kawa ni mukitachi arishi sode koyoi makamu to omowaku ga yosa

ま日長く川に向き立ちありし袖
今夜巻かむと思はくがよさ

Roma-ji: Makenagaku kawa ni mukitachi arishi sode koyoi makamu to omowaku ga yosa
English Translation: For long, long days now
standing facing toward the stream,
those sleeves that were there—
thinking that tonight I'll pillow
on them, oh, how sweet it is!
Meaning: How sweet it is to think that tonight I will pillow my head on the sleeves of one who stood so many long days facing the river.
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2073

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Tanabata"
This poem sings of the delight of thinking that tonight, at last, the speaker will pillow on the sleeves of one who stood so many days facing the river in waiting. The length of the days of waiting and the joy of tonight's meeting are contrasted within one poem. Whereas 2030, "many are the nights I sit facing the river, longing," lamented the days of waiting facing the river, this poem sings of the joy of the meeting that comes at their end.

The first line, "makenagaku," over many long days, is the same opening as 2016.
The second line, "standing facing the river," describes the waiting.
In the third line, "arishi sode," "shi" is the attributive of the past "ki": the sleeves that were so.
In the fourth line, "koyoi makamu to," "maku" means to pillow on and "mu" expresses intention.
In the last line, "omowaku ga yosa," "omowaku" is the nominalized form of "omou" and "yosa" means goodness; it ends on a noun, closing with joy.
Source: Manyoshu
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