Amagomori mono mou toki ni hototogisu waga sumu sato ni kinaki toyomosu

雨隠り物思ふ時に霍公鳥
我が住む里に来鳴き響もす

Roma-ji: Amagomori mono mou toki ni hototogisu waga sumu sato ni kinaki toyomosu
English Translation: Shut in by the rain
as I sit lost in brooding,
the little cuckoo
to the village where I live
comes and fills it with its cries
Meaning: Shut in by the rain as I sit brooding, the little cuckoo comes to the village where I live and fills it with its cries.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Exchange Poems of Nakatomi no Yakamori and Sano no Otogami no Otome 3782

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems exchanged between Nakatomi no Ason Yakamori and Sano no Otogami no Otome"
He sings that while he is shut in by the rain and lost in brooding, the little cuckoo comes to the village where he lives and fills it with its cries. In the closed-in stillness of a rainy day, the cuckoo's voice resounds all the more in his heart. "Waga sumu sato" refers to the village of his exile, and the next poem uses the same line.
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 seven poems were composed by Nakatomi no Ason Yakamori expressing his thoughts through flowers and birds"; the seven poems from 3779 to 3785 of this book express his feelings through flowers and birds, six of them singing of the little cuckoo. 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, "amagomori": "amagomoru" means to stay indoors because of rain: shut in by the rain.
Second line, "mono mou toki ni": when I am brooding, the same line as in 3780 and 3781 of this book.
Third line, "hototogisu": the bird that cries in early summer, its voice said to stir up longing.
Fourth line, "waga sumu sato ni": to the village where I live, referring to his place of exile. The same as the fourth line of the next poem, 3783.
Fifth line, "kinaki toyomosu": "toyomosu" means to make resound with cries: it comes and fills the place with its cries, the poem ends.
Author: Nakatomi no Yakamori
Source: Manyoshu
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