Koiwaburu namida ya sora ni kumoruramu hikari mo kawaru neya no tsukikage - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

恋ひわぶる涙や空に曇るらむ
光も変はる閨の月影

Roma-ji: Koiwaburu namida ya sora ni kumoruramu hikari mo kawaru neya no tsukikage
English Translation: Is it that my tears,
suffering in love, have clouded
all the sky above?
Even its light has changed now,
the moon shining in my room.
Meaning: Have my tears of lovesick grief clouded the sky? Even the light of the moon shining into my bedchamber seems changed.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 1274

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "For the Poetry Contest in Fifteen Hundred Rounds."
This is the nineteenth poem of the sequence of love poems on the moon. Have my tears of love clouded the sky? the speaker wonders; even the light of the moon shining into the bedchamber looks changed. Continuing from the preceding poem, it was submitted to the Poetry Contest in Fifteen Hundred Rounds.
The author, "Kintsune, Provisional Middle Counselor," is Saionji Kintsune. A son of the Palace Minister Fujiwara no Sanemune, he later rose to grand minister and founded the Saionji house. Provisional Middle Counselor was his office when the collection was compiled.
In the main text, the first line reads "koiwaburu," which does not match "koiwataru" in the reading line. Here the main text is followed.

The first line, "koiwaburu," means "suffering and grieving in love."
In the second line, "namida ya sora ni," "ya" is interrogative, answered by "ramu" in the third line. That tears should reach even the sky is a hyperbole.
In the third line, "kumoruramu," "ramu" conjectures a cause: "is the sky clouded because of my tears?" The poem breaks after this line. Following the preceding poem, in which the moon lodged in the tears on a sleeve, here the tears cloud the moon in the sky.
The fourth line, "hikari mo kawaru," means "even its light seems changed." The change in the moon seen through tear-blurred eyes is attributed to a clouding of the sky.
The last line, "neya no tsukikage," ends on a noun. It presents the moonlight shining into a bedchamber where one sleeps alone, adding the loneliness of a lover who does not come.
Author: Fujiwara no Kintsune
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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