Sono mama ni matsu no arashi mo kawaranu o wasure ya shinuru fukeshi yo no tsuki - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

そのままに松の嵐も変はらぬを
忘れやしぬる更けし夜の月

Roma-ji: Sono mama ni matsu no arashi mo kawaranu o wasure ya shinuru fukeshi yo no tsuki
English Translation: Just as it was then,
the storm wind in the pines is
unchanged, and yet have
you forgotten it, that moon
of the night that grew so late?
Meaning: The wind in the pines blows just as it did that night, unchanged; yet have you forgotten the moon we watched until the night grew late?
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 1280

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown."
This is the twenty-fifth poem of the sequence of love poems on the moon. The storm wind in the pines sounds just as it did that night, the speaker says; has that person forgotten the moon we watched until late? As with the preceding poem, the headnote gives no topic, and the circumstances are not recorded.
The author, "Hōgen Sōen," was a priest who held the clerical rank of hōgen. Hōgen is the clerical rank next below hōin.

The first line, "sono mama ni," means "just as it was that night."
The second line, "matsu no arashi mo," means "the fierce wind in the pines too." It shows that not only the moon but even the sounds are unchanged from that night.
In the third line, "kawaranu o," "o" is concessive: "unchanged, and yet." Taking up "ima wa kokoro no kawaru tomo" in the preceding poem, it contrasts the constancy of nature with the fickleness of the human heart.
In the fourth line, "wasure ya shinuru," "ya" is interrogative: "have you forgotten?"
The last line, "fukeshi yo no tsuki," ends on a noun. Where the preceding poem asked the moon not to forget, this one asks whether it is not the moon but the person who has forgotten.
Author: Sōen
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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