押し照るや難波の津ゆり船装ひ
我れは漕ぎぬと妹に告ぎこそ
我れは漕ぎぬと妹に告ぎこそ
- Roma-ji
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Oshiteru ya Naniwa no tsu yuri funayosoi are wa koginu to imo ni tsugikoso
- English Translation
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From the shining port
of Naniwa, sparkling bright,
we fit out the ship;
"Now I have rowed out," I pray
someone tell my wife for me
- Meaning
- From the gleaming harbor of Naniwa we have made the ship ready. Someone, please tell my wife that I have rowed away.
- Commentary
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Book Twenty Frontier Guard Poems 4365
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems of the frontier guards sent in rotation to the provinces of Tsukushi in the second month of Tenpyō Shōhō 7, year of the wood sheep."
We have made the ship ready at Naniwa; please tell my wife I have rowed away: the poem would entrust news of departure to someone for his wife. It is the third poem from Hitachi and with the next forms a pair by the same author. Like the poem two before, it wishes his wife to know of his sailing. Yuri for yori and tsugi for tsuge are dialect forms.
The author, Mononobe no Michitari, was a guard from Shida District in Hitachi; nothing more is known of him.
The first line, "oshiteru ya," is a pillow word for Naniwa.
The second line, "Naniwa no tsu yuri," "from the port of Naniwa," names the place of departure.
The third line, "funayosoi," means preparing the ship for sailing.
The fourth line, "are wa koginu to," "that I have rowed out," is the message for his wife.
The closing line, "imo ni tsugikoso," with the wishing koso, ends almost exactly like the poem two before, "imo ni tsugekoso."
- Author
- Mononobe no Michitari
- Source
- Manyoshu
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