Eight Clouds

I’m reading a modern translation of Kojiki by Umehara Takeshi. Kojiki was edited from 711 to 713, so this poem was perhaps made much before. Looking at Vincent’s Jamaica photos, I wanted to show this poem. But I feel differently from the Japanese translation by the author and also from an English translation I found in web. Since all of you are good at writing poems, I need your help. This is the way the poem is saying to me.


Eight Clouds


Eight clouds stand.

Arisen clouds form fences.

To hold my wife,

I make an eightfold fence

which is that eightfold fence.