Aoyagi no hararo kawato ni na o matsu to semido wa kumazu tachido narasu mo

青柳の張らろ川門に汝を待つと
清水は汲まず立ち処平すも

Roma-ji: Aoyagi no hararo kawato ni na o matsu to semido wa kumazu tachido narasu mo
English Translation: Where the green willows
bud along the river crossing,
waiting there for you,
I forget to draw the water,
stamping flat the ground I stand on.
Meaning: At the river crossing where the green willows bud, waiting for you, I forget to draw water and only tread flat the ground where I stand.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Azuma Poems 3546

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sōmon (Love Exchanges)"
Waiting for her lover at the river crossing where the willows are in bud, a woman forgets she came to draw water and only treads the ground flat where she stands. The figure of a woman stamping her feet as she waits is vividly drawn.
It is one of the love exchanges. Like the miscellaneous poem 3443, "aoyagi no harite," it sings of spring willows coming into bud.
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, "aoyagi no": A willow in bud, a word also seen in 3443.
Second line, "hararo kawato ni": "Hararo" is an eastern form of "hareru," budding, and "kawato" is a river crossing.
Third line, "na o matsu to": "Waiting for you"; the line is hypermetric.
Fourth line, "semido wa kumazu": "Semido" is an eastern form of "shimizu," clear water: she came to draw water.
Final line, "tachido narasu mo": "Tachido" is where one stands, and "narasu" is treading it flat; "mo" is exclamatory.
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