Asahikage nioeru yama ni teru tsuki no akazaru kimi o yamagoshi ni okite

朝日影にほへる山に照る月の
飽かざる君を山越しに置きて

Roma-ji: Asahikage nioeru yama ni teru tsuki no akazaru kimi o yamagoshi ni okite
English Translation: In the morning sun
on the mountain glowing bright
shines the lingering moon;
you, whom I can never tire of,
left beyond the mountains now
Meaning: Like the moon still shining over the mountain aglow in the morning sun, you, whom I could gaze at forever, will now be left beyond the mountains, far from me.
Commentary: Book Four Love Poems 495

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Four poems from the time Tanabe no Imiki Ichihiko was appointed to the Dazaifu"
The last of the four poems takes as its preface the moon lingering over a mountain aglow in the morning sun, and laments that one she never tires of seeing will be set beyond the mountains. It ends unfinished, leaving the grief that follows to linger. The original gives no author, but since it addresses "you" (kimi), it is taken to be in the same woman's voice as the first poem, by Toneri no Kine.
The sequence that began with "how can you go leaving me" closes here with "left," so that the word oku runs through all four poems.
The author, Toneri no Kine, is a woman of whom little is known, apparently close to Tanabe no Ichihiko. Toneri is her clan name.

First line, "In the morning sun," means the light of the rising sun; setting daybreak first calls up the morning of parting.
Second line, "on the mountain glowing bright," uses niou, "to shine in lovely color," to picture the mountain radiant in the morning light.
Third line, "shines the lingering moon," is the dawn moon still shining in the morning light; the first three lines form a preface introducing a beauty one never tires of.
Fourth line, "you, whom I can never tire of," means you whom I could gaze on without end, overlaying the beauty of the moon in the preface on the beloved.
Fifth line, "left beyond the mountains now," runs to eight syllables and means placed on the far side of the mountains. It breaks off unfinished, leaving the sorrow of being left to linger, and closes the sequence with the same verb oku found in the first poem's last line.
Author: Toneri no Kine (attributed)
Source: Manyoshu
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