Tachibana no tera no nagaya ni waga ineshi unai hanari wa kami agetsuramu ka

橘の寺の長屋に我が率寝し
童女放髪は髪上げつらむか

Roma-ji: Tachibana no tera no nagaya ni waga ineshi unai hanari wa kami agetsuramu ka
English Translation: At Tachibana,
in the long hall of the temple,
the girl I lay with,
her loose hair cut at the nape—
has she put her hair up now?
Meaning: The girl with loose, nape-length hair whom I took to lie with in the long hall of Tachibana Temple—has she by now put up her hair as a woman?
Commentary: Book Sixteen Poems with Tales of Origin and Miscellaneous Poems 3822

Headnote: "An old poem says:"
The poet wonders whether the young girl he once lay with in the long hall of Tachibana Temple has by now grown up and put up her hair. It carries a sense of time's passing and wistfulness at the girl's growing up.
According to the left note, Shiino no Muraji Nagatoshi criticized the poem, saying that temple buildings are not places where laymen sleep, and that since the fourth line already names the girl's hairstyle, the final line should not repeat a word for putting up the hair. The next poem, 3823, is the version revised on that basis.
The poem is an old one whose author is not recorded.

First line, "Tachibana no," names a place in Asuka in Yamato, referring to Tachibana Temple.
Second line, "tera no nagaya ni," means "in the temple's long hall." In the next poem this becomes "in the long hall shining."
Third line, "waga ineshi," means "the one I took and lay with."
Fourth line, "unai hanari wa," means "the girl with hair cut at the nape." In the next poem the particle becomes ni, sharpening the difference between the two.
Final line, "kami agetsuramu ka," means "has she put up her hair?" The perfective tsu and present conjectural ramu imagine the girl as she is now, far away.
Source: Manyoshu
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