Ama no to o oshiakegata no kumoma yori kamiyo no tsuki no kage zo nokoreru - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

天の戸をおしあけがたの雲間より
神代の月の影ぞ残れる

Roma-ji: Ama no to o oshiakegata no kumoma yori kamiyo no tsuki no kage zo nokoreru
English Translation: Through a rift in clouds
at the dawn that thrusts open
the heavenly rock door,
the light of the moon of the age
of the gods still lingers on.
Meaning: Through a rift in the clouds at dawn, as though the heavenly rock door were being pushed open, the light of the moon from the age of the gods still lingers.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1547

Headnote: "On the spirit of 'The Moon at Dawn,' at the Kasuga Shrine Poetry Contest."
This is the first poem of the sequence on the moon at dawn. Through a rift in the clouds at a dawn that opens like the heavenly rock door, the light of the moon of the age of the gods still lingers. According to the headnote, it was composed at the Kasuga Shrine Poetry Contest on the topic "The Moon at Dawn."
The author, "the Regent and Chancellor," is Fujiwara no Yoshitsune. The son of Kujō Kanezane, he became Regent and Grand Minister. He wrote the kana preface of the Shin Kokinshū.
The Kasuga Shrine Poetry Contest was a poetry contest that Retired Emperor Go-Toba dedicated to Kasuga Shrine in Genkyū 1 (1204). "Ama no to" refers to the heavenly rock door, known from the myth in which the Sun Goddess Amaterasu hid behind the rock door and light returned to the world when it was opened.

The first line, "ama no to o," presents the heavenly rock door. Fitting for a contest dedicated to a shrine, it opens with a word from myth.
In the second line, "oshiakegata no," "oshiakegata" plays on "oshiake," pushing open a door, and "akegata," dawn. It overlays the myth of pushing open the heavenly rock door with the hour of daybreak.
The third line, "kumoma yori," means "through a rift in the clouds."
The fourth line, "kamiyo no tsuki no," refers to the moon unchanged since the age of the gods. It extends the dawn moons of the preceding poems to the moon of the mythic age.
The last line, "kage zo nokoreru," closes the kakari-musubi of the particle "zo" with the attributive form "nokoreru." Sensing in the moonlight lingering in the dawn sky a divine power continuing from the age of the gods, it celebrates Kasuga Shrine.
Author: Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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