Waga sena o Tsukushi wa yarite utsukushimi ehi wa tokanana aya ni kamo nemu

我が背なを筑紫は遣りて愛しみ
えひは解かななあやにかも寝む

Roma-ji: Waga sena o Tsukushi wa yarite utsukushimi ehi wa tokanana aya ni kamo nemu
English Translation: Having sent my man
far away to Tsukushi,
so dear is he that
with my sash still tied I'll lie
and sleep in helpless longing
Meaning: Having sent my husband away to Tsukushi, I love him so that I shall sleep without untying my sash, lost in longing.
Commentary: Book Twenty Frontier Guard Poems 4428

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."
Having sent my husband to Tsukushi, I love him so that I shall sleep with my sash tied, in helpless longing: the poem sings of a wife's nights thinking of her husband. The left note says it is the fourth of the eight guard poems of former years that Iware no Morokimi copied and sent to Yakamochi. It is nearly identical to the poem by Hatoribe no Azame, wife of a Musashi guard, suggesting that guards' wives' poems were passed on by recitation, changing shape as they went. Tsukushi wa for Tsukushi e and ehi for obi are dialect forms.
The author's name has not come down. It is thought to be by a wife sending off her husband as a guard.

The first line, "waga sena o," "my husband," is the same as the first line of the Musashi wife's poem.
The second line, "Tsukushi wa yarite," means "having sent him off to Tsukushi."
The third line, "utsukushimi," "because he is dear," uses mi of cause.
The fourth line, "ehi wa tokanana," "without untying my sash," uses ehi, a dialect form of obi.
The closing line, "aya ni kamo nemu," "shall I sleep in helpless longing?" ends with kamo, exclamation tinged with doubt.
Source: Manyoshu
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