Toyokuni no Kiku no nagahama yukikurashi hi no kureyukeba imo o shi zo omou

豊国の企救の長浜行き暮らし
日の暮れゆけば妹をしぞ思ふ

Roma-ji: Toyokuni no Kiku no nagahama yukikurashi hi no kureyukeba imo o shi zo omou
English Translation: Along the long beach
of Kiku in the land of Toyo
I walked all day,
and as the sun goes down
it is my love I think of
Meaning: I walked the whole day along the long beach of Kiku in Toyo, and as the sun sets, it is my wife I think of.
Commentary: Book Twelve Dialogue Poems 3219

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Dialogue Poems"
A man walking all day along the long beach of Kiku in Toyo finds that as the sun sets, he thinks only of his wife. It forms a question-and-answer pair with the book's final poem, voicing a traveler's thoughts on a beach at dusk.
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, "Toyokuni no," means "of the land of Toyo," corresponding to eastern Fukuoka and Ōita today; the next poem answers with the same opening.
Line two, "Kiku no nagahama," is the long beach at Kiku in Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka. The beach at Kiku also appears in poem 3130 in this book.
Line three, "yukikurashi," means "walking all day."
Line four, "hi no kureyukeba," means "as the day grows dark," the same line as in poem 2901 in this book.
Line five, "imo o shi zo omou," means "it is my wife I think of," with "zo" concluded by the attributive "omou."
Author: Unknown
Source: Manyoshu
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