Imo o koso aimi ni koshika mayobiki no yokoyamabero no shishi nasu omoeru

妹をこそ相見に来しか眉引きの
横山辺ろの獣なす思へる

Roma-ji: Imo o koso aimi ni koshika mayobiki no yokoyamabero no shishi nasu omoeru
English Translation: It was my love
I came to see, nothing more,
yet like the beasts
on the slopes of eyebrow hills,
so they think of me, it seems.
Meaning: I came only to see my beloved, yet they look at me as if I were a wild beast from the long eyebrow hills.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Azuma Poems 3531

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sōmon (Love Exchanges)"
He came only to meet his beloved, yet her household regards him like a wild beast from the long hills—so a man complains. The grievance of a youth eyed warily by a girl's family is expressed with a comic animal image.
It is one of the love exchanges. Following the deer of 3530, it sings of beasts, standing just before the group of horse poems that begins next.
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, "imo o koso": "Koso" is a binding particle answered by the perfective "shika" in the second line.
Second line, "aimi ni koshika": "Though I came to see her," completing "koso" and flowing on with contrast.
Third line, "mayobiki no": A pillow word for "yokoyama," long hills, from the curve of painted eyebrows.
Fourth line, "yokoyamabero no": The area around the long, low hills, with the eastern suffix "ro."
Final line, "shishi nasu omoeru": "Shishi" are game such as deer and boar, and "nasu" means like; the line is hypermetric with eight syllables.
Source: Manyoshu
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