Yo o nagami i no neraenu ni ashihiki no yamabiko toyome saoshika naku mo

夜を長み寐の寝らえぬにあしひきの
山彦響めさを鹿鳴くも

Roma-ji: Yo o nagami i no neraenu ni ashihiki no yamabiko toyome saoshika naku mo
English Translation: The night is so long
that I cannot fall asleep,
and in the mountains,
making the echoes ring,
a stag is calling out
Meaning: The night is so long that I cannot sleep, and a stag is calling, making the mountain echoes ring.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Poems of the Envoys to Silla 3680

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Seven poems composed while anchored at Hikitsu Lodge"
Unable to sleep through the long autumn night, he hears a stag calling, making the mountain echoes ring. The deer's voice resounding through the hushed mountains at night deepens the loneliness of sleepless lodging on a journey. The seven poems at Hikitsu Lodge close with this poem of the deer's voice, and that voice, sung three times in the sequence, impresses the deepening of autumn and the longing for home.
According to the headnote, this is one of seven poems composed while anchored at Hikitsu Lodge. Hikitsu was a harbor in Shima District, Chikuzen Province, thought to be near Hikitsu Bay in Shima, present-day Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture. The author of this poem is not named.

First line, "yo o nagami": "o ... mi" expresses a cause: since the night is long.
Second line, "i no neraenu ni": though I cannot sleep, the same second line as in 3665 and 3678 of this book.
Third line, "ashihiki no": a pillow word for "yama" (mountain).
Fourth line, "yamabiko toyome": "yamabiko" is a mountain echo and "toyomu" to make resound: making the echoes ring.
Fifth line, "saoshika naku mo": a stag is calling, the same last line as in 3674 of this book.
Source: Manyoshu
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