Mizutori no tatamu yosoi ni imo nora ni mono iwazu kinite omoikanetsumo

水鳥の立たむ装ひに妹のらに
物言はず来にて思ひかねつも

Roma-ji: Mizutori no tatamu yosoi ni imo nora ni mono iwazu kinite omoikanetsumo
English Translation: Like the waterfowl
rising, in the haste of leaving,
to my dearest wife
not a word I said, and came—
now I cannot bear these thoughts.
Meaning: In the flurry of setting off, like waterbirds taking wing, I left without a word to my wife—and now I cannot bear these thoughts.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Azuma Poems 3528

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sōmon (Love Exchanges)"
Caught up in the hurried preparations for departure like waterbirds taking flight, the singer left without a word to his wife, and now regret is unbearable. Regret at not having exchanged parting words grips his heart on the road.
It is one of the love exchanges, as the waterfowl poems continue. Its fourth line matches 3481, "Arikinu no saesae shizumi ie no imo ni mono iwazu kinite omoigurushimo," sharing the same idea. A similar poem appears among the frontier guards' poems in Book Twenty.
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, "mizutori no": A pillow word for "rising," since waterbirds take flight.
Second line, "tatamu yosoi ni": "Preparations to set out," a hurried departure.
Third line, "imo nora ni": "Nora" is thought to be a suffix of endearment: to my wife.
Fourth line, "mono iwazu kinite": "I came without a word," the same line as in 3481; it is hypermetric with eight syllables.
Final line, "omoikanetsumo": "I cannot bear my thoughts," the same last line as in 3475.
Source: Manyoshu
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