Hototogisu kayou kakine no unohana no uki koto are ya kimi ga kimasanu - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

郭公通ふ垣根の卯の花の
憂きことあれや君が来まさぬ

Roma-ji: Hototogisu kayou kakine no unohana no uki koto are ya kimi ga kimasanu
English Translation: The cuckoo comes
to the hedge where deutzia
blossoms white and "u";
is there something that pains you,
that you do not come to me?
Meaning: Like the deutzia at the hedge where the cuckoo comes, is there something that pains you, that you do not come to me?
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Spring Poems 1071

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The poet asks whether, like the "u" of the deutzia blossoms at the hedge where the cuckoo comes, there is something "u," hurtful, that keeps the beloved from coming. Taking the early-summer scene of the hedge as an introduction, it sings of a heart waiting for one who no longer visits. From here, poems on summer things such as the cuckoo and the deutzia continue.
The author, written as "Hitomaro," is Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, a court poet of the Asuka period revered as the sage of poetry and the foremost poet of the Man'yōshū, and one of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets. Many Man'yōshū poems are included in the Shūishū under Hitomaro's name.
A similar poem appears in Book Ten of the Man'yōshū, with the first line "uguisu no."

First line, "hototogisu," means "the cuckoo," the bird that heralds summer. In this book, poems on the cuckoo continue from 1073 to 1077.
Second line, "kayou kakine no," means "of the hedge it visits," sharing the word "kakine" with the second line of the next poem, 1072, "sakeru kakine ni."
Third line, "unohana no," means "of the deutzia," and the first three lines form an introductory phrase that, repeating the sound "u," leads to "uki" in the fourth line. It is the same line as the first line of the next poem, 1072.
Fourth line, "uki koto are ya," means "is there something painful," with "are" in the perfective form and "ya" expressing a question.
Final line, "kimi ga kimasanu," means "that you do not come," with "kimasu" an honorific of "come" and "nu" the attributive form of the negative "zu."
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Source: Shui Wakashu
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