Tabigoromo tamoto katashiki koyoi mo ya kusa no makura ni ware hitori nemu

旅衣たもと片敷き今宵もや
草の枕にわれひとり寝む

Roma-ji: Tabigoromo tamoto katashiki koyoi mo ya kusa no makura ni ware hitori nemu
English Translation: My travelling robe,
spreading out a single sleeve,
tonight once again
on a pillow made of grass
must I lie down all alone?
Meaning: Spreading out one sleeve of my travelling robe, must I sleep alone again tonight on a pillow of grass?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 565

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On the heart of travel"
Spreading one sleeve of his travelling robe, the poet wonders whether he must again sleep alone on a pillow of grass. The loneliness of the road and the absence of a companion overlap. Kamo no Mabuchi marked this poem with a sign of praise.
It was included in the imperial anthology Gyokuyō Wakashū.

Line 1 means "travelling robe."
Line 2 means "spreading a single sleeve," a poetic phrase for sleeping alone.
Line 3 means "tonight again?" ya being an interrogative binding particle concluded by mu in line 5; it implies the nights before were the same.
Line 4 means "on a pillow of grass," taking the pillow word kusamakura of the two preceding poems as a real scene.
Line 5 means "shall I sleep alone?"
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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