Tsukikage wa onaji hikari no aki no yo o wakite miyuru wa kokoro narikeri - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

月影は同じ光の秋の夜を
わきて見ゆるは心なりけり

Roma-ji: Tsukikage wa onaji hikari no aki no yo o wakite miyuru wa kokoro narikeri
English Translation: The moonlight is
the same light on every autumn
night, and yet
that it seems so rare tonight
is the doing of the heart
Meaning: The moonlight is the same light on every autumn night—that it looks so special tonight is the work of the heart that sees it.
Commentary: Book Six Autumn Poems II 326

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "The fifteenth night of the Eighth Month."
The poet says that the moonlight is the same as ever, and what makes tonight seem so special is the heart of the one who looks. Taking up the preceding poem's praise of tonight's moon, it reasons that the splendor lies in the beholder's heart.
325 and 326 stand together as poems on the mid-autumn moon under the headnote "The fifteenth night of the Eighth Month."
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Tsukikage wa," means "the moonlight."
The second line, "onaji hikari no," means "of the same light as always."
In the third line, "o" is an adversative conjunctive particle: "though it is an autumn night."
The fourth line, "wakite miyuru wa," means "that it looks especially fine," using the same word as "wakite koyoi no" in the fourth line of the preceding poem.
The last line, "kokoro narikeri," means "it is the heart," with "keri" a sigh of realization.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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