Youthful Passion.

I thought to try translating directly from the Mañyoushuu again. A while ago I had downloaded 8 waka: 03 - 315/316/318/320/321/323/325/326, somewhat randomly. I had tried out 315, 316 and 321, but I wasn't that satisfied with the results. So I restarted with 326. Wow, such honesty !! The following is the somewhat less explicit version. The literal version you may read at the end of the notes. Waka is a very playful form of verse. The hiragana is the spoken version and the kanji complements that version through interchanging homonyms (mostly > -ba and -sha). Well, enjoy !!

Sitting up all night
on the side of a lit fire
I look out across the bay:
oh how I wish to go to my love
for blissful sex again !!

Translation: 白狐

[Mañyoushuu 03 - 0326]

The kanji:

見渡者
明石之浦尓
焼火乃
保尓曽出流
妹尓戀久

The hiragana:

みわたせば
あかしのうらに
ともすひの
ほにぞいでぬる
いもにこふらく

The Romaji:

mi-watase-ba
akashi no ura ni
tomosu hi no
ho ni zo idenuru
imo ni kofu-raku.
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-- NOTES --

[5/7/7/9/6=34 > 3 too many: should be 5/7/5/7/7]

門部王在難波見漁父燭光作歌 [一首 = isshu = one poem / poem one]
[?? about father, fishing, writing, credit and some department]
後賜姓大原真人氏也
["after-death given surname Ô-hara-shin-jin Mr. / Dai-gen-shin-jin Mr. is"
so either "great true plainsman" or "great original true person".]

-- Verse 1 --

mi-watasu = look out (over, across).
見る = mi-ru = see, look.
渡 = to, wata-ru/-su = transit; ford; ferry; cross; import; deliver; migrate; diameter.
者 = zhě = mono/-sha/-ja > person, someone. [> someone that looks out across]
-ba = when, if, provided.

[when look out across]

-- Verse 2 --

明かす = akasu = disclose, reveal; sit up the whole night.
石 = shí = ishi = stone, rock.
no = clause particle > ..., that ... / -ing > participle clause
浦 = ura = bay/gulf [wan]; creek [ogawa]; inlet [irie];  beach [hamabi]; seacoast [kaigan].

[sitting up all night (on a rock) to the bay/inlet/etc.]

-- Verse 3 --

焼す > tomo-su = to light (candle, &c.), burning, lit.
焼 = yaki = bake, burning.
火 = hi = fire.

[of a burning fire]

-- Verse 4 --

保 = ho/hô = protect; guarantee; keep; preserve; sustain; support.
方 = kata/hô = direction, side.
曽 = sô/hî/hi = greatgrand- / formerly, once, before, ever, never, ex-.
ぞ = zo = I'm sure that ... (rhetorically to oneself); Well, ... (emphasize opinions and wishes); etc.
出る = (i)deru = come out, go out, appear, participate [archaic > idenuru ??]
流 = ru = exile / ryû = style/method/manner/school of [current].

[on the side how I wish to come/go out (of exile)]

-- Verse 5 --

妹 = imôto = younger sister / 芋 · 薯 · 藷 = imo = taro, sweet potato; (archaic) darling.
恋 / 戀 = koï = (in) love, yearn for, miss; darling. [it says ko-fu > kôfuku = happiness]
久 = jiŭ = kyû/ku/hisa = (for a) long (time), long time ago.
楽 = raku = comfort; ease. / 楽園 = raku-en = pleasure garden; paradise.

[to/for darling (suggesting one's own younger sister)
(sex/)happiness pleasure (one had a long time ago).]

-- Postpositionals --

[no] 之 = zhî = object indicator. / one, it, this.
[ni] å°“ = Ä•r = you, like that, so.
[no] 乃 = năi = so, only t/when / (indeed) be / you(r).
_ _ _ _ _

-- Literally --

Sitting up all night
on the side of a lit fire
I look out across the bay:
oh how I wish to go to my li'l sis
for blissful sex again !!
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