Wagimoko o yukite haya mimu Awajishima kumoi ni mienu iezukurashi mo

我妹子を行きて早見む淡路島
雲居に見えぬ家つくらしも

Roma-ji: Wagimoko o yukite haya mimu Awajishima kumoi ni mienu iezukurashi mo
English Translation: To my dear wife
I will go and see her soon;
Awaji Island
has come in sight among the clouds,
home must be drawing near
Meaning: I will hurry home and see my dear wife soon; Awaji Island has come into view far off among the clouds. Home must be drawing near.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Poems of the Envoys to Silla 3720

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Five poems composed on returning by way of Tsukushi and reaching Ieshima in Harima Province, on the sea route back to the capital"
Since Awaji Island has come into view far off among the clouds, he sings that home must be near and he longs to see his wife soon. It frankly expresses the joy and eagerness of seeing, for the first time on the homeward journey, scenery near home. In the outward chōka, 3627 of this book, Awaji Island was sung as hidden in clouds at evening; here that same island appears beyond the clouds, so that the scenes of the outward and return voyages form a pair.
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, "wagimoko o": my dear wife.
Second line, "yukite haya mimu": "mu" is intention: I will go and see her soon. The poem breaks after the second line.
Third line, "Awajishima": Awaji Island, seen to the east from the sea of Harima, a sight showing that home is near.
Fourth line, "kumoi ni mienu": "kumoi" is where the clouds are, far away, and "nu" is perfective: it has come into view beyond the clouds.
Fifth line, "iezukurashi mo": "iezuku" means to draw near home, "rashi" grounded inference, and "mo" exclamatory: home must be near, the poem ends.
Source: Manyoshu
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