Hashiki yashi okina no uta ni ohohoshiki kokono no kora ya kamakete oramu

はしきやし翁の歌におほほしき
九の子らや感けて居らむ

Roma-ji: Hashiki yashi okina no uta ni ohohoshiki kokono no kora ya kamakete oramu
English Translation: Dear old man, your song—
has it not moved us, the dull
and thoughtless girls,
all nine of us together,
so that we sit here enthralled?
Meaning: Dear old man, have we nine foolish girls not been moved, sitting here enthralled by your song?
Commentary: Book Sixteen Poems with Tales of Origin and Miscellaneous Poems 3794

Headnote: "Nine poems in reply by the maidens."
The maiden wonders whether she and her eight thoughtless companions have been moved by the old man's song. The girls who had mocked him frankly voice their surprise at being touched, and this poem opens the set of nine.
This is the set in which the nine maidens who had teased the Bamboo-Cutter answer his chōka and envoys one after another. From the second poem on, almost every one ends with "I too shall draw near," so that the maidens yield to the old man one by one.
The poet is one of the nine maidens the Bamboo-Cutter met; her name is not recorded. She is a figure of the tale, one of those the old man called immortals.

First line, "hashiki yashi," means "dear" or "beloved." The maiden returns the very phrase the old man used in his chōka.
Second line, "okina no uta ni," means "to the old man's song," referring to his chōka and envoys. Answering his call of kora, the girls now call him okina.
Third line, "ohohoshiki," means "dull" or "thoughtless," a humble word for the girls' own carelessness in slighting him.
Fourth line, "kokono no kora ya," means "we nine girls." The particle ya forms a kakari-musubi with mu in the final line, adding wonder to the question.
Final line, "kamakete oramu," means "are we moved?" It closes the ya construction with attributive mu and opens the set of nine.
Source: Manyoshu
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