Takamato no miya no susomi no nozukasa ni ima sakeruramu ominaeshi wa mo

高円の宮の裾廻の野づかさに
今咲けるらむをみなへしはも

Roma-ji: Takamato no miya no susomi no nozukasa ni ima sakeruramu ominaeshi wa mo
English Translation: On the rising ground
of the meadows that surround
Takamato's palace,
blooming there by now, it seems,
ah, the maidenflowers there
Meaning: On the knolls of the fields around the palace of Takamato, the maidenflowers must be blooming now, how I picture them.
Commentary: Book Twenty Miscellaneous Poems 4316

Headnote: none. Continuing the left note above, this is one of six poems Yakamochi composed while thinking alone of the autumn fields.
On the knolls of the fields around the palace of Takamato, the maidenflowers must be blooming now: the poem thinks fondly of flowers he cannot go to see. According to the left note, it is the second of six poems Yakamochi composed while thinking alone of the autumn fields, turning from the bush clover of the preceding poem to the maidenflower.
The author, Ōtomo no Yakamochi, son of Ōtomo no Tabito, was at this time Junior Assistant Minister of Military Affairs.

The first line, "Takamato no," places at the start the same place name that closes the preceding poem, linking the set.
The second line, "miya no susomi no," uses susomi, "surroundings," for the fields around the palace.
The third line, "nozukasa ni," means "on the rising ground in the fields."
The fourth line, "ima sakeruramu," with ramu, present conjecture, imagines them blooming now where he cannot see.
The closing line, "ominaeshi wa mo," ends with the exclamatory wa mo, full of longing for the flowers. Yakamochi's Takamato poem near the head of this book also names the maidenflower.
Author: Otomo no Yakamochi
Source: Manyoshu
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