Akazu nomi omohoemu o ba ikaga sen kaku koso wa mime aki no yo no tsuki - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

飽かずのみおもほえむをばいかがせん
かくこそは見め秋の夜の月

Roma-ji: Akazu nomi omohoemu o ba ikaga sen kaku koso wa mime aki no yo no tsuki
English Translation: Never satisfied,
so it seems that I shall be,
what am I to do?
Just like this I'll gaze upon
the moon of the autumn night.
Meaning: What am I to do when I feel I can never have enough of it? I will simply keep gazing like this at the moon of the autumn night.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 174

Headnote: "On a painting of the fifteenth night of the Eighth Month, in the reign of Retired Emperor En'yū"
However long one gazes at the autumn moon one never tires of it, and since nothing can be done about that, the poet resolves to keep gazing like this forever. The poem expresses an inexhaustible love for the harvest moon and the wish to praise it again and again. According to the headnote, it accompanied a painting of the fifteenth night of the Eighth Month, made in the reign of Emperor En'yū.
The author, written as Motosuke, is Kiyohara no Motosuke. A grandson of Kiyohara no Fukayabu, he took part in compiling the Gosenshū and in reading the Man'yōshū as one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber. He was the father of Sei Shōnagon and is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "akazu nomi," means "ever unsatisfied."
Second line, "omohoemu o ba," means "that it will seem so," with "mu" as an auxiliary of conjecture.
Third line, "ikaga sen," means "what shall I do; nothing can be done." The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "kaku koso wa mime," means "just so shall I gaze," with the emphatic particle "koso" resolved by "me," the realis form of the volitional auxiliary "mu."
Final line, "aki no yo no tsuki," ends on a noun, naming at last what the poet resolves to keep gazing at. The heart that never tires of the moon is carried on in the following poems and answers "akanu wa hito no kokoro narikeri" in 176 of this book.
Author: Kiyohara no Motosuke
Source: Shui Wakashu
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