Wagimoko shi ware o omowaba masokagami teriizuru tsuki no kage ni miekone

我妹子し我れを思はばまそ鏡
照り出づる月の影に見え来ね

Roma-ji: Wagimoko shi ware o omowaba masokagami teriizuru tsuki no kage ni miekone
English Translation: If my dearest love
should be thinking now of me,
clear as a mirror,
in the light of the bright moon
let her come and show herself
Meaning: If my beloved truly thinks of me, let her come and show herself in the light of the moon now shining forth, bright as a polished mirror.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems Ancient and Modern I 2462

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Feelings through Things"
If the beloved truly thinks of the speaker, let her appear in the light of the moon as it shines forth: a love poem of longing. It expresses an earnest wish to see the face of an absent lover within the bright light of the moon.
Like the preceding poem, this one speaks through the moon. Where this poem seeks the beloved's form in the light of the rising moon, the next poem, 2463, laments that if the moon is hidden there will be nothing left to remember her by, so that the moon's rising and its hiding form a pair.
The author is unknown; according to the left note, the poem comes from the Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection. That collection is thought to contain both Hitomaro's own poems and poems by others that he recorded. Kakinomoto no Hitomaro was a court poet active in the reigns of Empress Jito and Emperor Monmu, and is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "wagimoko shi": "my beloved." "Wagimoko" is a word men use fondly for a lover or wife, and "shi" is an emphatic particle.
Second line, "ware o omowaba": "if she thinks of me." The irrealis with "ba" forms a hypothetical condition, carrying the wish to be sure of her heart.
Third line, "masokagami": a pillow word attached to "teru" (to shine), because a clear, polished mirror reflects light.
Fourth line, "teriizuru tsuki no": "of the moon shining forth." The line has eight syllables, one too many (jiamari).
Fifth line, "kage ni miekone": "come and appear in its light." "Kage" means light and also a form seen within that light, and "ne" is a final particle voicing a wish addressed to another.
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
Source: Manyoshu
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