Shika no ama no tsuri ni tomoseru isaribi no honoka ni imo o miru yoshi mogana - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

志賀の海人の釣りにともせる漁り火の
ほのかに妹を見るよしもがな

Roma-ji: Shika no ama no tsuri ni tomoseru isaribi no honoka ni imo o miru yoshi mogana
English Translation: Like the fishing fires
kindled by the fisherfolk
of Shika for their lines,
if only there were some way
to see my love, if faintly.
Meaning: Like the fishing fires the fisherfolk of Shika kindle for their angling, if only there were some way to see my beloved, however faintly.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems II 752

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem wishes that there were some way to see the beloved, if only faintly, like the fishing fires the fisherfolk of Shika kindle for their angling. It lays over the fires glimmering on the dark sea a wish to see the beloved's form, however dimly. A similar poem on the fishing fires of the fisherfolk of Shika also appears in the Man'yōshū. Like 732 and 733, it sings of seeing "honoka ni," faintly.

First line, "Shika no ama no," means "of the fisherfolk of Shika" in Chikuzen, a hypermetric line of six syllables.
Second line, "tsuri ni tomoseru," means "kindled for angling," with "ru" the attributive form of the auxiliary "ri" of continuing state.
Third line, "isaribi no," means "like the fishing fires," and up to here the lines form a preface leading to "honoka ni" in the fourth line.
Fourth line, "honoka ni imo o," means "my beloved, faintly," using the same word as the fourth lines of 732, "honoka ni mite zo," and 733, "honoka ni mieshi," in this book.
Final line, "miru yoshi mogana," means "if only there were a way to see," with "mogana" a final particle of wishing.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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