Shika no ama no hitohi mo ochizu yaku shio no karaki koi o mo are wa suru kamo

志賀の海人の一日もおちず焼く塩の
からき恋をも我れはするかも

Roma-ji: Shika no ama no hitohi mo ochizu yaku shio no karaki koi o mo are wa suru kamo
English Translation: Like the salt burned
by the fishers of Shika
not missing a day,
so bitter is the love
that I am suffering
Meaning: Like the salt the fishers of Shika boil down without missing a single day, so bitter and harsh is the love I suffer.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Poems of the Envoys to Silla 3652

Headnote: "Four poems composed in grief on reaching the lodge in Tsukushi and gazing far toward home"
The bitterness of the salt the fishers of Shika boil down every day without fail is likened to a painful, harsh love. The grief of gazing toward home on reaching Tsukushi is expressed through salt-making, the trade of the place. "Hitohi mo ochizu" also overlays the unceasing pain of love.
According to the headnote, this is one of four poems composed in grief on reaching the lodge in Tsukushi and gazing far toward home. The Tsukushi lodge was a facility for diplomatic missions overlooking Hakata Bay, thought to correspond to the later Kōrokan. The author is not named.

First line, "Shika no ama no": Shika is Shikanoshima Island in Hakata Bay, known as a home of fisherfolk. The line has six syllables, hypermetric.
Second line, "hitohi mo ochizu": "otsu" means to be left out: not missing a single day.
Third line, "yaku shio no": boiling down seawater to make salt. The lines up to here form a preface that, through the bitterness of salt, leads into "karaki" in the fourth line.
Fourth line, "karaki koi o mo": the saltiness of salt is turned into the bitter pain of love.
Fifth line, "are wa suru kamo": "kamo" is exclamatory: this is what I suffer, the poem ends.
Source: Manyoshu
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