Tsuki sumeba yomo no ukigumo sora ni kiete miyamagakure ni yuku arashi kana - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

月澄めば四方の浮雲空に消えて
深山隠れに行く嵐かな

Roma-ji: Tsuki sumeba yomo no ukigumo sora ni kiete miyamagakure ni yuku arashi kana
English Translation: As the moon shines clear,
drifting clouds on every side
vanish in the sky,
and hiding in the deep hills
the storm wind goes on its way.
Meaning: As the moon shines clear, the drifting clouds on every side vanish into the sky, and the storm wind goes off to hide in the depths of the mountains.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1525

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Among the poems I presented when I made a pilgrimage to Kumano."
This is the fifth poem of the sequence on the moon lingering at dawn. As the moon shines clear, the drifting clouds on every side vanish, and the storm wind goes off to hide deep in the mountains. The headnote continues from the preceding poem: it is one of the poems presented to Retired Emperor Go-Toba during a pilgrimage to Kumano.
The author, "Fujiwara no Hideyoshi," was the son of Fujiwara no Hidemune. He served Retired Emperor Go-Toba as a warrior of the North Guard and was also made a Fellow of the Bureau of Poetry. No author's name is given in the text; the poem follows the author of the preceding poem.
Kumano refers to the three Kumano shrines in Kii, to which pilgrimages by retired emperors flourished in the period of cloistered rule.

The first line, "tsuki sumeba," adds "ba" to the perfective form to state a fixed condition: "as the moon shines clear."
The second line, "yomo no ukigumo," refers to drifting clouds on every side. It takes up "mine no kumo" of the preceding poem.
The third line, "sora ni kiete," is hypermetric and describes the drifting clouds vanishing into the sky. The clouds that lingered in the preceding poem here disappear.
The fourth line, "miyamagakure ni," means "as if hiding deep in the mountains." The storm that swept away the clouds goes off into the mountain depths.
The last line, "yuku arashi kana," closes with the exclamatory "kana." Moving from the lingering clouds of the preceding poem to a scene in which the clouds vanish and the moon shines clear, the two poems depict one continuous scene of the mountain moon.
Author: Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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