Tamadare no osu no taresu o yukikachi ni i wa nasazu tomo kimi wa kayowase

玉垂の小簾の垂簾を行きかちに
寐は寝さずとも君は通はせ

Roma-ji: Tamadare no osu no taresu o yukikachi ni i wa nasazu tomo kimi wa kayowase
English Translation: With jewels hanging,
through the screen of the little blind,
just passing to and fro,
though you may not sleep with me,
you, my love, still come to me
Meaning: Even if it is only passing back and forth through the hanging bamboo blind, even if you do not lie with me, still, my love, come to me.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems Ancient and Modern I 2556

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing One's Feelings Directly"
The speaker asks the beloved to keep coming to the house where the blinds hang, even if they cannot sleep together. Amid circumstances that hinder their meetings, the poem holds a woman's wish for the lover's visits, however brief.
The third line, "yukikachi ni," is written in the original as "徃褐," and its reading and meaning have long been debated without any settled view. Here it is taken to mean passing to and fro through the blind, but it should be noted that other interpretations exist. The first three lines depict the blind hanging at the entrance of the house, and the second half states the wish openly.
The author is unknown. The anonymous poems of Book Eleven gather love poems by people whose names have not come down to us.

First line, "tamadare no": a pillow word, from beads strung on a cord and hung down, attached to the "o" of "osu," the little blind.
Second line, "osu no taresu o": "through the hanging screen of the little blind." "Osu" is an elegant word for a bamboo blind, depicting the entrance of the beloved's house.
Third line, "yukikachi ni": the reading and meaning of the original "徃褐" are disputed, and one view takes it to mean "merely passing to and fro."
Fourth line, "i wa nasazu tomo": "even if you do not sleep with me." "I" means sleep, "nasa" is an honorific form of "nu," to sleep, and the particle "tomo" expresses a hypothetical concession.
Fifth line, "kimi wa kayowase": "you, my love, come to me." "Kayowase" is the imperative of "kayou" with the honorific auxiliary "su," strongly expressing the wish addressed to the lover.
Source: Manyoshu
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