KKS 16

Text

題しらず

読人しらず

野辺ちかく　いへゐしせれば　うぐひすの　なくなるこゑは　あさなあさなきく

Translation

Topic unknown

Poet unknown

Near the fields / I live, and so / the voice of the cry (4) / of the warbler (3) / I hear morning after morning.

Notes

いえゐしせれば

This is 家居す. せれば is し (RY) + あれば contracted to せれば, indicating a continuous action. The し is the emphasis particle. The term 家居　may come from Chinese poetry, or from the MYS. The MYS characters are now read as いえをる, and a few alternate manuscripts read をれば for this poem as well.

なくなる

The なる here is the so-called 伝聞 suffix, indicating that the speaker hears the information or sound.

あさなあさな

There is some question whether this should be read literally as "every morning", or just generally as "every day", but the majority opinion is that it means the former. The line has eight beats, but this may have been pronounced あさなさな -- even if not, a good number of 字余り situations involve vowels that could have easily been elided in spoken recitation.