Akiyama no momichi o kazashi waga oreba urashio michiku imada akanaku ni

秋山の黄葉をかざし我が居れば
浦潮満ち来いまだ飽かなくに

Roma-ji: Akiyama no momichi o kazashi waga oreba urashio michiku imada akanaku ni
English Translation: With yellow leaves
of the autumn mountain
in my hair I sit,
when the tide in the bay rises,
though I have not had my fill
Meaning: As I sit with yellow leaves from the autumn hills adorning my hair, the tide comes rising into the bay, though I have not yet had my fill of pleasure.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Poems of the Envoys to Silla 3707

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Eighteen poems composed while anchored at Takashiki Bay, each expressing his feelings"
Enjoying the banquet with yellow leaves of the autumn hills in his hair, he finds the tide rising into the bay, though he has not yet had his fill. It expresses the pleasure of an elegant banquet adorned with autumn leaves and the regret of being urged to set sail by the rising tide. Taking up the ambassador's "shio miteba akazu ware yuku" in the preceding poem, it sings of the same rising tide and lingering regret from the vice-ambassador's side. A left note reads "the above poem is by the vice-ambassador."
The author, Ōtomo no Minaka, was an official who served as vice-ambassador of the embassy to Silla. It is known that he fell ill on the way home and his return to the capital was delayed.
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, "akiyama no": of the autumn mountain.
Second line, "momichi o kazashi": "kazasu" means to put flowers or sprigs in one's hair, an elegant adornment at a banquet.
Third line, "waga oreba": as I sit so.
Fourth line, "urashio michiku": the tide has come rising into the bay; the poem breaks after the fourth line. It takes up "shio miteba" in the preceding poem, 3706.
Fifth line, "imada akanaku ni": "naku" is the nominalized negative and "ni" exclamatory: though I have not had my fill, the poem ends.
Author: Ōtomo no Minaka
Source: Manyoshu
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