Nayamashike hitozuma kamo yo kogu fune no wasure wa senana iya moi masu ni

悩ましけ人妻かもよ漕ぐ舟の
忘れはせなないや思ひ増すに

Roma-ji: Nayamashike hitozuma kamo yo kogu fune no wasure wa senana iya moi masu ni
English Translation: How you trouble me,
you who are another's wife!
As a rowing boat goes on,
I cannot forget you, no—
my longing only deepens.
Meaning: How you torment me, wife of another man! Like a boat rowed ever onward, I cannot forget you—my longing only grows.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Azuma Poems 3557

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sōmon (Love Exchanges)"
How she troubles him, this wife of another man; like a boat rowed ever onward, he cannot forget her and his longing only grows, the singer says. The pain of a forbidden love is frankly expressed.
It is one of the love exchanges. Love for another man's wife is also sung in 3472, 3539, and 3541, a recurring theme among the Azuma poems.
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, "nayamashike": "Nayamashike" is an eastern form of "nayamashiki," tormenting.
Second line, "hitozuma kamo yo": "Kamo yo" is exclamatory; the poem pauses here. Like "hitozuma koro" in 3539 and 3541, it sings of a married woman.
Third line, "kogu fune no": A rowing boat, which moves ever forward and so leads to longing growing.
Fourth line, "wasure wa senana": "Senana" is an eastern form of "sezu ni": without forgetting.
Final line, "iya moi masu ni": "Iya" means ever more, and "masu" means longing grows; the line is hypermetric.
Source: Manyoshu
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