Kimi matsu to neya e mo iranu maki no to ni itaku na fukeso yama no ha no tsuki - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

君待つと閨へも入らぬ槙の戸に
いたくな更けそ山の端の月

Roma-ji: Kimi matsu to neya e mo iranu maki no to ni itaku na fukeso yama no ha no tsuki
English Translation: Waiting for my love,
I do not go to my bed
by the cedar door;
do not shine so late in the night,
O moon at the mountain's rim
Meaning: Waiting for you, I do not go into my bedchamber but stay by the cedar door—O moon at the mountain's rim, do not climb so late into the night.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 1204

Headnote: "On the topic of waiting love."
This is the eighth poem of the sequence on nights spent waiting for one who does not come. Waiting for her lover, she does not go into her bedchamber but stays by the cedar door, and she asks the moon at the mountain's rim not to climb so late into the night. According to the headnote, it was composed on the set topic of waiting love.
The author, "Princess Shokushi," is a daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa. She served as Kamo Priestess and later took holy orders. She studied poetry under Fujiwara no Shunzei and is one of the foremost women poets of the Shinkokinshū.

The first line, "kimi matsu to," means "waiting for you," directly stating the waiting heart that is the theme of the sequence.
The second line, "neya e mo iranu," means "not going even into the bedchamber." Like "nenamashi mono o" in 1197 of this book, it shows that the one who waits stays awake without sleeping.
The third line, "maki no to ni," means "at the door of cedar planks." It is the entrance through which the lover would come, and the moonlight falls there.
The fourth line, "itaku na fukeso," means "do not grow so late." "Na ... so" expresses prohibition. It is a wish to stop the moon from climbing high and the night from deepening, for the late hour tells her that the lover will not come.
The last line, "yama no ha no tsuki," is an address to the moon, the same last line as 1198 of this book. Where 1198 waited for the moon to rise, this poem grudges the moon's climbing into the late night. It is a paired composition in which the same moon at the mountain's rim is sung from the side that waits for its rising and the side that would stop its passing.
Author: Princess Shokushi
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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