Akikaze wa hi ni ke ni fukinu wagimoko wa itsu to ka ware o iwai matsuramu

秋風は日に異に吹きぬ我妹子は
いつとか我れを斎ひ待つらむ

Roma-ji: Akikaze wa hi ni ke ni fukinu wagimoko wa itsu to ka ware o iwai matsuramu
English Translation: The autumn wind
blows stronger day by day;
my dear wife,
when will he come, she wonders,
waiting for me in prayer
Meaning: The autumn wind blows stronger with each passing day; my dear wife must be wondering when I will return, waiting for me in pure-hearted prayer.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Poems of the Envoys to Silla 3659

Headnote: "Nine poems composed while gazing at the moon by the sea"
Feeling in the autumn wind, stronger each day, that the autumn in which he was to return has come, he imagines his wife waiting and praying, wondering when he will come home. Autumn was the season of the promised return, and the poem expresses the pain of being unable to go home even as that autumn wind blows. The promise in 3587 of this book, where his wife sang before departure "I shall wait, keeping pure in prayer," is here imagined from the husband's side.
The author was the second son of the ambassador Abe no Tsugumaro; his name has not come down. He had joined the embassy accompanying his father. A left note reads "the ambassador's second son."
According to the headnote, this is one of nine poems composed while gazing at the moon by the sea, thought to have been made during the stay at the Tsukushi lodge.

First line, "akikaze wa": the wind that announces autumn, marking the season of the promised return.
Second line, "hi ni ke ni fukinu": "hi ni ke ni" means more each day, and "nu" is perfective: it has come to blow stronger day by day. The poem breaks after the second line.
Third line, "wagimoko wa": my dear wife.
Fourth line, "itsu to ka ware o": "ka" is an interrogative binding particle resolved by the attributive "ramu": wondering when I will return.
Fifth line, "iwai matsuramu": "iwau" is to purify oneself and pray for safety, and "ramu" conjectures a present matter out of sight: she must be waiting in prayer. It is the same as the fourth line of 3636 of this book.
Author: Second son of Abe no Tsugumaro
Source: Manyoshu
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