Kosugero no ura fuku kaze no adosusu ka kanashike koro o omoisugosamu

古須気ろの浦吹く風のあどすすか
愛しけ子ろを思ひ過ごさむ

Roma-ji: Kosugero no ura fuku kaze no adosusu ka kanashike koro o omoisugosamu
English Translation: At Kosugero,
the wind that sweeps across the bay
passes on—but how
could I ever let her pass,
my dear girl, out of my heart?
Meaning: Like the wind that blows across the bay of Kosugero and passes on—how could I ever let my darling girl pass out of my thoughts?
Commentary: Book Fourteen Azuma Poems 3564

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sōmon (Love Exchanges)"
As the wind blows across the bay of Kosugero and moves on, how could the singer let his love for his darling pass away? The wind blowing through is set against a longing that will not fade.
It is one of the love exchanges. Kosuge is a place of unknown location, thought by some to be Kosuge in Musashi, near present-day Katsushika in Tokyo.
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, "kosugero no": A place of unknown location, with the eastern suffix "ro."
Second line, "ura fuku kaze no": The wind blowing across the bay, which passes on and so leads to "sugosamu." The first two lines form a preface.
Third line, "adosusu ka": "Ado" is an eastern "how," and "susu ka" is an obscure word thought to correspond to "sesu ka."
Fourth line, "kanashike koro o": "Kanashike" is an eastern form of "kanashiki."
Final line, "omoisugosamu": "Omoisugosu" is to let one's thoughts pass, to forget; the poem ends rhetorically.
Source: Manyoshu
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