Kyō mo ka mo miyako nariseba mimaku hori nishi no mimaya no to ni tateramashi

今日もかも都なりせば見まく欲り
西の御馬屋の外に立てらまし

Roma-ji: Kyō mo ka mo miyako nariseba mimaku hori nishi no mimaya no to ni tateramashi
English Translation: Today too, perhaps,
if I were in the capital,
longing to see you,
by the western royal stables
I would be standing outside
Meaning: If I were in the capital, today too, longing to see you, I would be standing outside the western royal stables.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Exchange Poems of Nakatomi no Yakamori and Sano no Otogami no Otome 3776

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems exchanged between Nakatomi no Ason Yakamori and Sano no Otogami no Otome"
He sings that if he were in the capital, today too, longing to see her, he would be standing outside the western royal stables. The western royal stables were the palace horse bureau, and one glimpses a concrete memory of days in the capital when he waited near where the young woman served for a chance to meet. Recalling the place of their former meetings makes his present lot, unable to meet her, feel all the more poignant.
The author, Nakatomi no Yakamori, was a son of Nakatomi no Azumahito, from the Nakatomi clan in charge of the rites of the gods. He was exiled to Echizen Province for an offense, but was later pardoned and returned to the capital.
A left note reads "the above two poems are by Nakatomi no Ason Yakamori"; 3775 and 3776 of this book were sent by Yakamori to the young woman. The latter half of this book contains sixty-three poems exchanged between Nakatomi no Yakamori and Sano no Otogami no Otome. According to the book's table of contents, when Yakamori took as his wife the young woman, a lady-in-waiting of the palace storehouse office, he was exiled to Echizen Province by imperial decree. The place of exile is thought to be Ajimano in Echizen, near present-day Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture.

First line, "kyō mo ka mo": "ka" is interrogative and "mo" exclamatory: today too, perhaps.
Second line, "miyako nariseba": "seba" is a counterfactual condition answering "mashi" in the last line: if I were in the capital.
Third line, "mimaku hori": "mimaku" means seeing and "horu" to desire: longing to see you.
Fourth line, "nishi no mimaya no": "mimaya" is a stable, here the western horse bureau of the palace.
Fifth line, "to ni tateramashi": "to" is outside, "ra" continuative, and "mashi" counterfactual: I would be standing outside, the poem ends.
Author: Nakatomi no Yakamori
Source: Manyoshu
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