Ina mo o mo hoshiki manimani yurusubeki kao miyuru kamo ware mo yorinamu

否も諾も欲しきまにまに許すべき
顔見ゆるかも我れも寄りなむ

Roma-ji: Ina mo o mo hoshiki manimani yurusubeki kao miyuru kamo ware mo yorinamu
English Translation: Whether no or yes,
just as we might wish it so,
he would grant us all—
I see it written on his face;
I too shall go and draw near.
Meaning: Whether we say no or yes, his face shows he would grant us anything we wish. I too shall go and draw near to him.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Poems with Tales of Origin and Miscellaneous Poems 3796

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Nine poems in reply by the maidens."
Seeing in the old man's face that he would forgive them whatever they said, yes or no, the maiden decides that she too will draw near. It shows the girls warming to his generous nature.
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, "ina mo o mo," means "whether no or yes." It sets opposite words side by side, and the same phrase appears in the third line of poem 3798.
Second line, "hoshiki manimani," means "just as we wish," that is, according to the girls' own will.
Third line, "yurusubeki," means "likely to grant," modifying "face" in the fourth line.
Fourth line, "kao miyuru kamo," means "I see it in his face." Kamo is exclamatory, and the poem pauses after the fourth line.
Final line, "ware mo yorinamu," means "I too shall draw near." It turns "ware wa yorinamu" of the preceding poem, 3795, into "ware mo," and from here the pattern of the girls drawing near one after another begins.
Source: Manyoshu
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