Ominaeshi hiru mitemashi o aki no yo no tsuki no hikari wa kumogakuretsutsu - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

女郎花昼見てましを秋の夜の
月の光は雲隠れつつ

Roma-ji: Ominaeshi hiru mitemashi o aki no yo no tsuki no hikari wa kumogakuretsutsu
English Translation: The maiden flowers—
I should have seen them in the day,
for on autumn nights
the light of the moon is ever
hiding behind the clouds
Meaning: I should have looked at the maiden flowers by day—on this autumn night the moonlight keeps hiding behind the clouds.
Commentary: Book Six Autumn Poems II 340

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet laments that the maiden flowers should have been viewed by day, for the light of the autumn moon keeps hiding behind the clouds and the flowers cannot be seen well. It conveys the disappointment of meaning to view the flowers by moonlight only to have the clouds intervene.
From 339 to 341, three anonymous poems on the maiden flower stand together.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. The text gives the poet as "yomibito mo," which is treated here as "anonymous."

The first line, "Ominaeshi," means "the maiden flowers."
In the second line, "mashi" is an auxiliary of counterfactual supposition, and "o" is an adversative particle tinged with a sigh: "I should have seen them by day." The poem pauses here.
The third line, "aki no yo no," means "of the autumn night."
The fourth line, "tsuki no hikari wa," means "the moonlight," the same words as the second line of 323 in this book.
The last line, "kumogakuretsutsu," means "hiding again and again behind the clouds." Where 320 of this book wished for the clouds to clear, this poem laments the moon hidden by clouds.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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