Yūkage ni kinaku higurashi kokodaku mo higoto ni kikedo akanu koe ka mo

夕影に来鳴くひぐらしここだくも
日ごとに聞けど飽かぬ声かも

Roma-ji: Yūkage ni kinaku higurashi kokodaku mo higoto ni kikedo akanu koe ka mo
English Translation: In the evening light
coming, singing, the cicada—
though so very much
every day I hear it sing,
never tire I of that voice!
Meaning: The evening cicada comes to sing in the evening light—though I hear it so much, day after day, its voice never tires me.
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2157

Headnote: "On Cicadas"
This poem praises the voice of the higurashi cicada coming to sing in the evening light, saying one never tires of it though it is heard every day. Its headnote is "On Cicadas." Whereas in 1964 of the summer poems the cicada's voice was lamented as deepening brooding, here the same voice is an object of admiration, so opposite feelings are sung toward the same higurashi's voice.

The first line, "in the evening light," names the time.
The second line, "the higurashi that comes to sing," names the insect.
The third line, "kokodaku mo," means so much.
In the fourth line, "higoto ni kikedo," "do" is adversative: though I hear it every day.
In the last line, "akanu koe ka mo," "ka mo" is exclamatory, closing in praise of a voice that never tires.
Source: Manyoshu
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