Asagasumi kabiya ga shita ni naku kawazu koe dani kikaba are koime ya mo

朝霞鹿火屋が下に鳴くかはづ
声だに聞かば我れ恋ひめやも

Roma-ji: Asagasumi kabiya ga shita ni naku kawazu koe dani kikaba are koime ya mo
English Translation: Morning haze arises
by the smudge-hut, underneath
there the frogs sing out—
if I could but hear your voice,
would I pine for you like this?
Meaning: Like the frogs singing beneath the smudge-fire hut veiled in morning haze—if only I could hear your voice, would I long for you so?
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Love Poems 2265

Headnote: "Love Expressed Through Singing Frogs"
This poem says that if the speaker could hear even the beloved's voice, like the frogs singing beneath the smudge-fire hut, there would be no such longing. Its headnote is "Love Expressed Through Singing Frogs." Taking as its preface the voice of unseen frogs, it expresses the ache of not hearing even the beloved's voice. It has nearly the same device as 2239 at the head of the autumn love poems, "if I could hear even your voice, why should I grieve," echoing it within the section.

The first line, "asagasumi," is regarded as a pillow word attached to "kabiya."
In the second line, "kabiya ga shita ni," a "kabiya" is thought to be a hut where fires were burned to drive off animals.
The third line, "the singing frogs," with the upper lines forming a preface leading into "voice."
In the fourth line, "koe dani kikaba," "dani" means at least; it is the same as the fourth line of 2239.
In the last line, "are koime ya mo," "me ya mo" is rhetorical: would I long so? no.
Source: Manyoshu
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