Ou shimoto kono motoyama no mashiba ni mo noranu imo ga na kata ni idemu kamo

生ふしもとこの本山のましばにも
告らぬ妹が名かたに出でむかも

Roma-ji: Ou shimoto kono motoyama no mashiba ni mo noranu imo ga na kata ni idemu kamo
English Translation: Sprouting saplings
on this mountain at our door,
like its brushwood, oft—
my girl's name I never spoke—
will it show in the divining?
Meaning: Like the brushwood among the young saplings on this nearby mountain—my girl's name, which I have never spoken even once, will it appear in the divination's cracks?
Commentary: Book Fourteen Azuma Poems 3488

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sōmon (Love Exchanges)"
From "shiba," brushwood, on the nearby mountain, the singer draws "shibashiba," often, and frets that his beloved's name, never spoken, may appear in a divination. The fear that a hidden love will be exposed by divination is expressed.
It is one of the love exchanges. Like 3374 from Musashi, "Musashino ni urabe kata yaki masade ni mo noranu kimi ga na ura ni denikeri," it sings of a hidden name appearing in a divination.
The poet is unknown. The Azuma uta are thought to have been sung among the people of the eastern provinces, and they are marked by plain, open-hearted expression mixed with local dialect.

First line, "ou shimoto": "Shimoto" are slender young branches, growing thick.
Second line, "kono motoyama no": "Motoyama" is thought to be a mountain near the village.
Third line, "mashiba ni mo": "Mashiba" is brushwood, its sound "shiba" echoing "shibashiba," often. The first three lines form a preface.
Fourth line, "noranu imo ga na": "My girl's name that I never spoke," answering "noranu kimi ga na" in 3374.
Final line, "kata ni idemu kamo": "Kata" is the pattern shown in a divination; "mu" is conjectural and "kamo" interrogative.
Source: Manyoshu
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