Masegoshi ni mugi hamu koma no norayuredo nao shi koishiku omoikanetsu mo

馬柵越しに麦食む駒の罵らゆれど
猶し恋しく思ひかねつも

Roma-ji: Masegoshi ni mugi hamu koma no norayuredo nao shi koishiku omoikanetsu mo
English Translation: Like the colt that's scolded
for eating barley through
the paddock fence,
I am scolded, but still I love,
and cannot hold it back
Meaning: Like a colt scolded for eating barley over the fence, I am scolded too, but I still love and cannot hold back my feelings.
Commentary: Book Twelve Expressing Thoughts through Things 3096

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Thoughts through Things"
Like a colt scolded for eating barley over the fence, the poet too is reproached for loving, yet cannot hold back. Using a simple rural scene as an introduction, it is a poem with a touch of humor. From here a series of poems on horses follows.
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, "masegoshi ni," means "over the paddock fence."
Line two, "mugi hamu koma no," means "of the colt eating barley," and the lines up to here form an introduction leading, through being scolded, to "norayu."
Line three, "norayuredo," means "though I am scolded," referring to love being reproached, perhaps by parents.
Line four, "nao shi koishiku," means "still I love," with "shi" emphatic.
Line five, "omoikanetsu mo," means "I cannot hold back my feelings," the same words as the last line of poem 3019 in this book.
Author: Unknown
Source: Manyoshu
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