Ama no hara sora sae sae ya wataru ran kōri to miyuru fuyu no yo no tsuki - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

天の原空さへ冴えや渡るらん
氷と見ゆる冬の夜の月

Roma-ji: Ama no hara sora sae sae ya wataru ran kōri to miyuru fuyu no yo no tsuki
English Translation: Across the wide sky,
is even the heaven chilled
all through, I wonder?
Seeming to be made of ice,
the moon of a winter night.
Meaning: Is even the vast sky chilled through and through? The moon on this winter night looks just like ice.
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 242

Headnote: "Composed on seeing the moon"
Because the moon on a winter night looks like ice, the poet wonders whether even the vast sky is chilled through. Shifting his gaze from the ice on earth to the moon in the heavens, he grasps on a grand scale the cold, clear air of a winter night. According to the headnote, it was composed on seeing the moon.
The author, written as Egyō Hōshi, was a monk and poet of the mid-Heian period. He associated with the poets who gathered around the monk Anpō, who lived at the Kawara Palace, and he is counted among the Later Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "ama no hara," means "the vast plain of the sky."
Second line, "sora sae sae ya," means "even the sky chilled," with "sae" (even) adding the sense "not only the earth but the sky too." "Ya" is a questioning particle.
Third line, "wataru ran," means "is it so all across, I wonder," with "ya" resolved by the attributive "ran." The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "kōri to miyuru," means "seeming to be ice." Taking up the pond ice and moon of the two preceding poems, here the moon itself is seen as ice.
Final line, "fuyu no yo no tsuki," names the moon of a winter night, ending on a noun.
Author: Egyō
Source: Shui Wakashu
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