Ame harete kiyoku teritaru kono tsukuyo mata sara ni shite kumo na tanabiki

雨晴れて清く照りたるこの月夜
またさらにして雲なたなびき

Roma-ji: Ame harete kiyoku teritaru kono tsukuyo mata sara ni shite kumo na tanabiki
English Translation: The rain has cleared off,
and the moon shines pure and bright
on this moonlit night:
once more, now, over it
do not trail, O clouds
Meaning: The rain has cleared, and the moon shines pure tonight; O clouds, do not trail across it once again.
Commentary: Book Eight Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 1569

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Four autumn poems by Ōtomo no Yakamochi"
Rejoicing in the moonlit night that shines pure after the rain has cleared, the poet begs the clouds not to trail across it again and hide the moon. It expresses his tenderness for a moonlit night that came at last after long rains. The note dates it to the ninth month of autumn, Tenpyō 8 (736); it is the last of the four poems.
The author, Ōtomo no Yakamochi, was a son of Ōtomo no Tabito and an official of the Nara period. He rose to the post of Middle Counselor, is thought to have been closely involved in compiling the Man'yōshū, and left more poems than anyone else in the anthology.

The first line, "the rain having cleared," turns from the rainy scenes of the earlier poems to a clear night.
The second line means "shining pure."
The third line names this moonlit night after the rain, and the poem pauses here.
The fourth line means "once again."
The final line, with the prohibitive "na," begs the clouds not to trail across. Ōtomo no Fumimochi's 1480 in this book also calls the cuckoo to a moonlit garden, so tenderness for the beauty of a moonlit night echoes between them.
Author: Otomo no Yakamochi
Source: Manyoshu
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