Yama no ha o idete mo matsu no ko no ma yori kokorozukushi no ariake no tsuki - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

山の端を出でても松の木の間より
心づくしの有明の月

Roma-ji: Yama no ha o idete mo matsu no ko no ma yori kokorozukushi no ariake no tsuki
English Translation: Though it has come forth
from the rim of the hills, through gaps
among the pine trees—
how it wears upon my heart,
the moon lingering at dawn.
Meaning: Even after rising over the mountain rim, it peeps only through the gaps in the pines—how it wears upon my heart, the moon lingering at dawn.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1522

Headnote: "Composed on the spirit of 'The Moon over the Mountains' at a poetry contest at the same house."
This is the second poem of the sequence on the moon lingering at dawn. Even after rising over the mountain rim, the dawn moon peeps only through the gaps in the pines, wearing on the poet's heart. According to the headnote, it was composed on the topic "The Moon over the Mountains" at a poetry contest at Fujiwara no Yoshitsune's house, the same as in the preceding poem.
The author, "Fujiwara no Narikiyo," was a poet of the early Kamakura period.
The fourth and last lines draw on an anonymous poem in the Kokin Wakashū: "Ko no ma yori / morikuru tsuki no / kage mireba / kokorozukushi no / aki wa kinikeri" ("When I see the moonlight seeping through the trees, the autumn that wears upon the heart has come").

The first line, "yama no ha o," presents the mountain ridge from which the moon rises.
The second line, "idete mo matsu no," means "even after coming out." Though the moon ought to be visible once it has left the mountain rim, it is still blocked by the pines.
The third line, "ko no ma yori," means "through the gaps in the trees," using the first line of the source poem, "ko no ma yori," as it is.
The fourth line, "kokorozukushi no," means "wearing upon the heart" or "making one fret." It moves the "autumn that wears upon the heart" of the source poem to the dawn moon.
The last line, "ariake no tsuki," ends on a noun. Taking up "ariake no tsuki no," the first line of the preceding poem, it sings of the fretful mood of a dawn moon still hard to see even after it has left the mountain rim.
Author: Fujiwara no Narikiyo
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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