Kano koro to nezu ya narinamu hadasusuki urano no yama ni tsuku katayoru mo

かの子ろと寝ずやなりなむはだすすき
宇良野の山に月片寄るも

Roma-ji: Kano koro to nezu ya narinamu hadasusuki urano no yama ni tsuku katayoru mo
English Translation: With that girl of mine,
must I never come to lie?
Pampas plumes waving—
on the hills of Urano
the moon has leaned and set low.
Meaning: Am I to go without sleeping with that girl tonight? Over the hills of Urano, where the pampas grass waves, the moon has already tilted low.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Azuma Poems 3565

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Sōmon (Love Exchanges)"
On his way to his beloved, seeing the moon already tilting over the hills of Urano, the singer laments that tonight may pass without lying with her. The moon's movement through the deepening night heightens his anxious longing.
It is one of the love exchanges. Urano is thought by some to be Urano in Shinano, near present-day Ueda in Nagano. "Hadasusuki" is a pillow word also seen in 3506.
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, "kano koro to": "Kano koro" means that girl, with the eastern suffix "ro."
Second line, "nezu ya narinamu": "Ya" is an interrogative binding particle answered by "namu"; the poem pauses here.
Third line, "hadasusuki": A pillow word for "ura," the tips, since pampas grass comes into plume; it also appears in 3506.
Fourth line, "urano no yama ni": "Urano" is a place name, thought by some to be in Shinano.
Final line, "tsuku katayoru mo": "Tsuku" is an eastern word for the moon, and "katayoru" means it tilts; "mo" is exclamatory.
Source: Manyoshu
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