Ieshima wa na ni koso arikere unahara o a ga koikitsuru imo mo aranaku ni

家島は名にこそありけれ海原を
我が恋ひ来つる妹もあらなくに

Roma-ji: Ieshima wa na ni koso arikere unahara o a ga koikitsuru imo mo aranaku ni
English Translation: Ieshima, Home Isle,
is nothing but a name;
across the wide sea
I have come longing,
yet my love is not here
Meaning: Ieshima, Home Isle, is only a name; across the wide sea I have come longing for her, yet my wife is not here.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Poems of the Envoys to Silla 3718

Headnote: "Five poems composed on returning by way of Tsukushi and reaching Ieshima in Harima Province, on the sea route back to the capital"
From the name Ieshima (Home Isle) he thinks of home, and laments that the wife he has longed for across the wide sea is not there; Ieshima is only a name. On the homeward journey, having at last returned to the sea of Harima near home, the travelers' longing for home swells. The last line, "imo mo aranaku ni," is the same as that of 3592 of this book, composed on the point of departure, so that the lament for the absent wife answers between the beginning of the outward voyage and the end of the return.
According to the headnote, this is one of five poems composed on the way back from Silla, when the travelers came round by Tsukushi on the sea route to the capital and reached Ieshima in Harima Province. Ieshima is the present-day Ieshima Islands of Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture. The embassy returned to the capital after the new year, in the ninth year of Tenpyō, but the ambassador Abe no Tsugumaro had died on Tsushima on the way back, and the vice-ambassador Ōtomo no Minaka's return was delayed by illness. The author of this poem is not named.

First line, "Ieshima wa": Ieshima in Harima Province; that its name contains "ie" (home) is the heart of the poem's conceit.
Second line, "na ni koso arikere": "koso" is a binding particle resolved by the realis "kere" (kakarimusubi), voicing the realization that it is only a name. The poem breaks after the second line.
Third line, "unahara o": across the wide sea, showing the long journey.
Fourth line, "a ga koikitsuru": "tsuru" is the attributive of the perfective "tsu": I have come longing for her.
Fifth line, "imo mo aranaku ni": "naku" is the nominalized negative and "ni" exclamatory: yet my wife is not here, the same last line as in 3592 of this book.
Source: Manyoshu
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