Kimi ga atari mitsutsu mo oramu Ikomayama kumo na tanabiki ame wa furu tomo

君があたり見つつも居らむ生駒山
雲なたなびき雨は降るとも

Roma-ji: Kimi ga atari mitsutsu mo oramu Ikomayama kumo na tanabiki ame wa furu tomo
English Translation: Toward where you live
I will sit and gaze;
O Mount Ikoma,
let no clouds trail across you,
even though the rain may fall
Meaning: I will sit and gaze toward where you live; Mount Ikoma, let no clouds trail across you, even if the rain falls.
Commentary: Book Twelve Expressing Thoughts through Things 3032

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Thoughts through Things"
A woman wishes to keep gazing toward where her lover lives and asks that clouds not trail across Mount Ikoma to hide it. A nearly identical poem, with line four as "kumo na kakushi so," appears in section twenty-three of the Tales of Ise, and it became widely known in later ages.
The poet is unknown. Book Twelve, titled the second part of "Love Poems Exchanged Old and New," gathers love poems by people whose names have not come down to us, arranged by category.

Line one, "kimi ga atari," means "toward where you are," a hypermetric line of six syllables.
Line two, "mitsutsu mo oramu," means "I will keep gazing," and the poem pauses here.
Line three, "Ikomayama," is the mountain on the border of Yamato and Kawachi, addressed directly.
Line four, "kumo na tanabiki," means "clouds, do not trail across," with "na" prohibitive.
Line five, "ame wa furu tomo," means "even if the rain falls."
Author: Unknown
Source: Manyoshu
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