Makimuku no Hibara no kasumi tachikaeri kaku koso wa mime akanu kimi kana - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

巻向の檜原の霞たちかへり
かくこそは見め飽かぬ君かな

Roma-ji: Makimuku no Hibara no kasumi tachikaeri kaku koso wa mime akanu kimi kana
English Translation: Like the haze that on
Makimuku's cypress fields
rises again, so
again like this I would see
you, of whom I never tire.
Meaning: As the haze over the cypress fields of Makimuku rises again and again, so would I see you again and again like this, you of whom I never tire.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 816

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem says that as haze rises again and again over the cypress fields of Makimuku, so one wishes to meet the beloved again and again like this, never tiring of them. The spring haze of the upper verse forms a preface, singing of a love that never has enough no matter how often one meets.

First line, "Makimuku no," means "of Makimuku," a poetic place in Yamato.
Second line, "Hibara no kasumi," means "the haze over the cypress fields." It shares spring haze with the third line of the next poem, 817, "kasumitsutsu."
Third line, "tachikaeri," is a pivot word: "tachi" means the haze "rising," and "tachikaeri" means returning again and again. The first two lines form a preface.
Fourth line, "kaku koso wa mime," means "just so would I meet you," concluding in the perfective form "mime" in answer to "koso."
Final line, "akanu kimi kana," means "you of whom I never tire," with "kana" exclamatory.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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