Oshiteru naniwa horie no ashibe ni wa kari netaru ka mo shimo no furaku ni

おしてる難波堀江の葦辺には
雁寝たるかも霜の降らくに

Roma-ji: Oshiteru naniwa horie no ashibe ni wa kari netaru ka mo shimo no furaku ni
English Translation: Shining all around,
at Naniwa's canal banks
where the reeds grow thick,
do the wild geese sleep, I wonder,
while the frost is coming down?
Meaning: Among the reeds along the canal at Naniwa, are the wild geese sleeping, even as the frost falls?
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2135

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Wild Geese"
This poem imagines the geese that must be sleeping among the reeds of the Naniwa canal on a frosty, cold night. Picturing the geese huddled together in the cold, it feels for their touching plight. Against the geese flying across by the reeds in the preceding poem, this one sings of geese sleeping by the reeds, contrasting motion and stillness of the geese in the same setting.

The first line, "oshiteru," is a pillow word attached to "Naniwa" and is a short line.
In the second line, "naniwa horie no," "Naniwa horie" is thought to be a canal dug at Naniwa.
The third line, "among the reeds," sings of the same "ashibe" as the opening of the preceding poem.
In the fourth line, "kari netaru ka mo," "ka mo" is a question tinged with exclamation, and the poem breaks here.
In the last line, "shimo no furaku ni," "furaku" is the nominalized "furu" and "ni" adversative: though frost is falling.
Source: Manyoshu
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