Ashihiki no katayama kigishi tachiyukamu kimi ni okurete utsushikeme ya mo

あしひきの片山雉立ち行かむ
君に後れてうつしけめやも

Roma-ji: Ashihiki no katayama kigishi tachiyukamu kimi ni okurete utsushikeme ya mo
English Translation: Like the pheasant flying
off the foot-wearying hillside,
you will set out;
left behind by you, my love,
how could I stay sound of mind
Meaning: Like a pheasant flying up from the hillside, you will set out; left behind by you, how could I keep my senses?
Commentary: Book Twelve Poems Lamenting Parting 3210

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems Lamenting Parting"
A woman laments that, left behind by a lover setting out like a pheasant taking flight, she cannot keep her senses. It closes the section "Poems Lamenting Parting," voicing the sorrow of parting through a strong rhetorical question.
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, "ashihiki no," is a pillow word for "yama," mountain.
Line two, "katayama kigishi," means "a pheasant on the hillside," and the lines up to here form an introduction leading, through a pheasant taking flight, to "tachi," to set out.
Line three, "tachiyukamu," means "who will set out."
Line four, "kimi ni okurete," means "left behind by you," the same line as in poems 3140 and 3185 in this book.
Line five, "utsushikeme ya mo," is a rhetorical question, "could I keep my senses?"
Author: Unknown
Source: Manyoshu
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