Asanegami taga tamakura ni tawatsukete kesa wa katami to furikoshite miru - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

朝寝髪誰が手枕にたはつけて
今朝は形見と振り越して見る

Roma-ji: Asanegami taga tamakura ni tawatsukete kesa wa katami to furikoshite miru
English Translation: Hair from morning sleep,
on whose arm as pillow
was it tangled so?
this morning as a keepsake
I sweep it forward and gaze
Meaning: My hair, tangled from sleeping late, on whose arm was it pillowed and tangled? This morning I sweep it forward over my shoulder and gaze at it as a keepsake.
Commentary: Book Seven Love Poems I 358

Asking on whose arm the hair tangled by late sleep was pillowed, the poet now sweeps it forward over the shoulder and gazes at it as a keepsake of the night's meeting. The alluring figure of the morning after is drawn through the concrete image of tangled hair. The wording admits several readings.
The Man'yōshū also has a poem linking morning-tangled hair with an arm for a pillow, making it a poetic word from old times.
The author, Kunimoto, is Tsumori no Kunimoto, who served as chief priest of the Sumiyoshi Shrine. He was known as a poet, and his personal collection is the Kunimoto shū.

First line, 'asanegami', means hair tangled from sleeping late. The poem breaks after the first line.
Second line, 'taga tamakura ni', means on whose arm as pillow, asking who tangled the hair.
Third line, 'tawatsukete', is read as hanging in disarray, though its meaning is disputed.
Fourth line, 'kesa wa katami to', means this morning as a keepsake of that person, seeing the tangled hair as a remnant of the meeting.
Final line, 'furikoshite miru', means I sweep it forward over my shoulder and look, showing the gesture of taking up one's own hair to gaze at it.
Author: Tsumori no Kunimoto
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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