Tamamo karu Otome o sugite natsukusa no Nojima ga saki ni iori su ware wa

玉藻刈る処女を過ぎて夏草の
野島が崎に廬りす我れは

Roma-ji: Tamamo karu Otome o sugite natsukusa no Nojima ga saki ni iori su ware wa
English Translation: Past Otome
where they gather jeweled weed,
to summer-grassed
Nojima, its headland,
I have come to make my shelter
Meaning: Having passed Otome, where they gather the jeweled seaweed, I now make my rough shelter on the headland of Nojima, green with summer grass.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Poems of the Envoys to Silla 3606

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Old poems recited to suit the place"
A travel poem telling of passing Otome in Settsu and taking shelter for the night on the headland of Nojima on Awaji Island. A left note states that in Kakinomoto no Hitomaro's poem the second line reads "Minume o sugite" and the last line "fune chikazukinu," which corresponds to Hitomaro's travel poem at 250 in Book Three. Hitomaro's poem ends as the ship draws near the headland of Nojima, but here it has been altered to a scene of lodging at Nojima, suggesting how the travelers recited old poems to fit their own itinerary.
The author, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, was the foremost poet of the Man'yōshū, active as a court poet in the reigns of Empress Jitō and Emperor Monmu, and left many fine travel poems and elegies. This poem has come down in a form in which his poem was altered by members of the embassy as they recited it.
According to the headnote, 3602 to 3610 of this book are old poems the travelers recited along the way as suited to the place. Poems not of their own making were thus taken into the travel sequence, showing how people of the time shared old poems and adapted them to the occasion.

First line, "tamamo karu": by the shore where fine seaweed is gathered, a pillow-word-like phrase crowning seaside place names.
Second line, "Otome o sugite": "Otome" is a place in Settsu Province, around the Otomezuka mound, thought to be near Higashinada in present-day Kobe. In Hitomaro's poem this line reads "Minume o sugite."
Third line, "natsukusa no": from fields thick with summer grass, a pillow word for the "no" (field) of Nojima.
Fourth line, "Nojima ga saki ni": a cape in the northwest of Awaji Island, near Nojima in present-day Awaji City, Hyōgo Prefecture.
Fifth line, "iori su ware wa": "iori" means to build a rough hut and lodge in it, with "ware wa" inverted to the end. Hitomaro's poem ends instead with "fune chikazukinu."
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (variant)
Source: Manyoshu
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