Yama chikaku ie ya orubeki saoshika no koe o kikitsutsu inekatenu ka mo

山近く家や居るべきさを鹿の
声を聞きつつ寐ねかてぬかも

Roma-ji: Yama chikaku ie ya orubeki saoshika no koe o kikitsutsu inekatenu ka mo
English Translation: Near the mountains here
should I ever build my home?
Of the stag, the voice
listening to, on and on,
I can find no way to sleep.
Meaning: Should I ever have made my home so near the mountains? Listening to the stag's cries, I cannot sleep.
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2146

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On the Calling of Deer"
This poem, as if regretting living near the mountains, says that because of it the speaker cannot sleep at night hearing the stag's cries. Whereas 1829 in the spring poems envied someone living near the spring hills, this poem sings the opposite feeling, of being troubled by the deer's voice from living near the mountains.

The first line, "near the mountains," names the place.
In the second line, "ie ya orubeki," "ya" is a rhetorical particle: should I dwell there? surely not. The poem breaks here.
The third line, "of the stag," names the caller.
In the fourth line, "koe o kikitsutsu," "tsutsu" marks continuation: while hearing its voice.
In the last line, "inekatenu ka mo," "katenu" means unable and "ka mo" is exclamatory, closing with a lament at sleeplessness.
Source: Manyoshu
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