Takashiki no tamamo nabikashi kogidenamu kimi ga mifune o itsu to ka matamu

竹敷の玉藻靡かし漕ぎ出なむ
君がみ船をいつとか待たむ

Roma-ji: Takashiki no tamamo nabikashi kogidenamu kimi ga mifune o itsu to ka matamu
English Translation: Making the jeweled weed
of Takashiki sway,
you will row away;
your ship, my lord, when
shall I wait for its return
Meaning: Your ship will row away, making the jeweled seaweed of Takashiki sway; when, my lord, shall I wait for it to return?
Commentary: Book Fifteen Poems of the Envoys to Silla 3705

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Eighteen poems composed while anchored at Takashiki Bay, each expressing his feelings"
She asks when she should wait for the return of the embassy's ships that will row away, making the jeweled seaweed of Takashiki sway. The young woman who welcomed the travelers in the preceding poem by praising the beauty of their ships here sees them off, singing the heart of a woman awaiting their return. In the two poems of welcome and farewell, the role of the woman at the banquet is shown.
The author, Tamatsuki, is a woman of Tsushima described in the left note as "a young woman of Tsushima named Tamatsuki"; she is thought to have been a wandering woman entertainer who attended the banquet welcoming the embassy.
According to the headnote, this is one of eighteen poems composed while anchored at Takashiki Bay, each expressing his feelings. Takashiki Bay lies within Asō Bay in Tsushima, thought to be present-day Takeshiki in Mitsushima, Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture. The first half of the sequence ranges poems by the ambassador, vice-ambassador, senior and junior secretaries, and a young woman of Tsushima, and is thought to have been composed at a banquet.

First line, "Takashiki no": Takashiki Bay in Tsushima.
Second line, "tamamo nabikashi": "tamamo" is beautiful seaweed and "nabikasu" to make sway: the seaweed swaying as the ship rows out.
Third line, "kogidenamu": "na" is the irrealis of the perfective "nu" and "mu" the attributive of conjecture: which will row away.
Fourth line, "kimi ga mifune o": "kimi" refers to the members of the embassy, and "mi" is an honorific prefix.
Fifth line, "itsu to ka matamu": "ka" is an interrogative binding particle resolved by the attributive "mu": when shall I wait for its return, the poem ends.
Author: Tamatsuki
Source: Manyoshu
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