Yama no he ni iyuku satsuo wa ōkaredo yama ni mo no ni mo saoshika naku mo

山の辺にい行くさつ男は多かれど
山にも野にもさを鹿鳴くも

Roma-ji: Yama no he ni iyuku satsuo wa ōkaredo yama ni mo no ni mo saoshika naku mo
English Translation: To the mountainside
many hunters make their way,
many though they are,
on the hills and in the fields
still the stags are crying out.
Meaning: Though many hunters go into the hills, the stags cry out on the mountains and in the fields alike.
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2147

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On the Calling of Deer"
This poem says that though many hunters go into the hills, making them dangerous, stags cry out on mountains and fields alike. The image of deer calling for mates regardless of danger is overlaid with love's single-mindedness. In 2149 too a deer cries without fearing the hunter's aim, showing the same motif. It uses the same phrasing as "on the mountains and in the fields the warblers sing" in 1824 of the spring poems, singing of the autumn deer against the spring warbler.

The first line, "around the mountains," names the place.
In the second line, "iyuku satsuo wa," "i" is a prefix and "satsuo" means hunters.
The third line, "though they are many," uses the adversative "do."
The fourth line, "on the mountains and in the fields," is the same as the fourth line of 1824.
In the last line, "saoshika naku mo," "mo" is exclamatory, closing with the deer crying regardless of danger.
Source: Manyoshu
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