Satodōmi koi uraburenu masokagami toko no he sarazu ime ni mie koso

里遠み恋ひうらぶれぬまそ鏡
床の辺去らず夢に見えこそ

Roma-ji: Satodōmi koi uraburenu masokagami toko no he sarazu ime ni mie koso
English Translation: Since your home is far,
I am withered with longing;
like a clear mirror,
never leaving my bedside,
appear to me in my dreams
Meaning: Your village is so far away that I have wilted with longing. Like a clear mirror kept by the bed, stay at my bedside and appear to me in my dreams.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems Ancient and Modern I 2501

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Feelings through Things"
Unable to meet because the beloved's village is far away, and withered with longing, the speaker asks that the beloved at least stay by the bedside and appear in dreams. It conveys the aching wish to find in dreams the one who cannot be met in waking life.
This poem speaks through a clear mirror, linking the mirror kept by the bed with being "seen" in a dream. The next poem also opens with "masokagami," and poem 2503 in this book has "never leaving the bedside," so poems on things around the bed, mirror and pillow, follow one another.
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, "satodōmi": "since the village is far." The stem of "toshi" (far) with the suffix "mi" expresses the reason.
Second line, "koi uraburenu": "I have withered with longing." "Uraburu" means for the heart to wilt and lose its spirit. The poem pauses here.
Third line, "masokagami": a clear, unclouded mirror. Since mirrors were kept beside the bed, it is taken as a pillow word attached to "toko no he sarazu" in the fourth line, and it is also associated with "mie" (be seen) in the fifth line.
Fourth line, "toko no he sarazu": "never leaving my bedside." It is the same phrasing as "toko no he saranu" in poem 2503 of this book.
Fifth line, "ime ni mie koso": "please appear in my dreams." "Koso" is a particle expressing a wish directed at another, closing with the longing to see the beloved in dreams.
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
Source: Manyoshu
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