Ima kon to tanomeshi koto o wasurezu wa kono yūgure no tsuki ya matsuran - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

今来んと頼めしことを忘れずは
この夕暮れの月や待つらん

Roma-ji: Ima kon to tanomeshi koto o wasurezu wa kono yūgure no tsuki ya matsuran
English Translation: "I'll come to you soon"—
if that promise you made me
has not been forgotten,
are you waiting for the moon
to rise at this very dusk
Meaning: If you have not forgotten your promise, "I will come soon," are you waiting now for the moon to rise this evening?
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 1203

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown."
This is the seventh poem of the sequence on nights spent waiting for one who does not come. If the lover has not forgotten the promise to come soon, is he waiting for the moon to rise this evening? The headnote continues "Topic unknown" from the preceding poem, and the circumstances of composition are not recorded.
The author, "Fujiwara no Hideyoshi," served Retired Emperor Go-Toba as a guard of the North Quarter and became a fellow of the Bureau of Poetry. He took holy orders after the Jōkyū Disturbance.
The source poem is by the monk Sosei in Love Poems IV of the Kokinshū: "'I'll come to you soon'— / because you said only that, / I waited, till the / moon of the long autumn nights / rose at dawn to greet me."

The first line, "ima kon to," means "'I will come soon.'" It uses exactly the first line of the source poem.
The second line, "tanomeshi koto o," means "the promise you made." It replaces the source poem's "because you said only that" with "the promise you made," carrying on the word of promise from the three preceding poems.
The third line, "wasurezu wa," means "if you have not forgotten." It is a supposition that tries to read the lover's heart, containing the fear that he may have forgotten.
The fourth line, "kono yūgure no," means "of this dusk." Where the source poem waited through until the dawn moon, this allusive variation still stands at dusk.
The last line, "tsuki ya matsuran," means "is he waiting for the moon?" with "ya" forming a kakari-musubi with "ran." It guesses that the lover, too, may be waiting for the moon to rise to come to her. In place of the pine wind of the two preceding poems, the moon is sung again, leading into "the moon at the mountain's rim" of the next poem.
Author: Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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