Ono ga tsuma koiwabinikeri haru no no ni asaru kigisu no asana asana naku

おのが妻恋ひわびにけり春の野に
あさる雉の朝な朝な鳴く

Roma-ji: Ono ga tsuma koiwabinikeri haru no no ni asaru kigisu no asana asana naku
English Translation: For its own dear mate
how it yearns and pines away—
on the fields of spring
the pheasant searching for its food
cries morning after morning.
Meaning: How it pines for its own mate—the pheasant foraging in the spring fields cries out morning after morning.
Commentary: Spring Poems 107

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Pheasants"
The poet imagines that the pheasant crying every morning as it forages in the spring fields is pining for its mate. Like the preceding poem it sings of the pheasant's love for its mate, but moves the scene from the mountain peak to the spring fields.
This poem was included in the Gyokuyō Wakashū.

Line 1, "For its own dear mate," sings of the pheasant's longing.
Line 2: koiwabu means to be tormented by longing, and keri closes it with emotion; the poem pauses here.
Line 3 moves the scene from "the peak of Takamado" in the preceding poem, 106, to the spring fields.
Line 4: asaru means to search for food.
Line 5 is hypermetric at eight syllables; placing "morning after morning" from the preceding poem's third line at the close, it binds the two poems with the same words.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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