Ama otome isari taku hi no obohoshiku Tsuno no matsubara omohoyuru kamo

海人娘子漁り焚く火のおぼほしく
角の松原思ほゆるかも

Roma-ji: Ama otome isari taku hi no obohoshiku Tsuno no matsubara omohoyuru kamo
English Translation: Like the fishing fires
that the fisher maidens burn,
dim and hazily
the pine grove of Tsuno
comes floating into my mind
Meaning: Dim and blurred, like the fires the fisher girls burn as they fish by night, the pine grove of Tsuno rises in my mind.
Commentary: Book Seventeen 3899

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "In the eleventh month, winter, of the second year of Tenpyō, when Lord Ōtomo, Governor-General of Dazaifu, was appointed Major Counselor (while keeping his post as before) and went up to the capital, his attendants took a separate sea route. Grieving over the journey, each set down his heart in these ten poems"
Like the faint glow of fires lit by fisher girls at night, the pine grove of Tsuno, now passed, comes back hazily to mind—a poem recalling a scene of the journey. In 730, when Ōtomo no Tabito, Governor-General of Dazaifu, was appointed Major Counselor and returned to the capital, his attendants traveled separately by sea and set down the sorrows of their voyage in ten poems. Closing the set of ten, it holds the pine grove of Tsuno in Settsu, near the capital, together with the dreamlike image of fishing fires in the night.
The left note records the poet's name as unknown; he was one of the attendants of Tabito who traveled to the capital by sea.
The left note says that the names of the poets of the nine poems above are not known, so the authors of the nine from 3891 to this poem are unknown.

First line, "ama otome": the same word as "ama otomedomo" in the fourth line of 3890 at the head of the series, so the first and last of the ten answer each other through the fisher maidens.
Second line, "isari taku hi no": the fires lit to draw fish during night fishing; the upper two lines form a preface introducing obohoshiku.
Third line, "obohoshiku": dim and indistinct, joining the haze of the fishing fires with the blurred image rising in the mind.
Fourth line, "Tsuno no matsubara": a place in Settsu, thought to be near Tsuto in present-day Nishinomiya, Hyōgo. It answers "Aga matsubara" in 3890, so the series opens and closes with a pine grove.
Fifth line, "omohoyuru kamo": omohoyu means to come to mind unbidden, and kamo is exclamatory—"how it comes back to me."
Source: Manyoshu
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