Ariake no kokochi koso sure sakazuki ni hikage mo soite idenu to omoeba - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

有明の心地こそすれさかづきに
日かげも添ひて出でぬと思へば

Roma-ji: Ariake no kokochi koso sure sakazuki ni hikage mo soite idenu to omoeba
English Translation: It feels like the dawn
with the moon still in the sky,
for upon the cup
the sun's light, too, is added,
so it seems, as it comes forth.
Meaning: It feels like a dawn with the moon still in the sky, for the cup, with its moon, has been brought out with the sunlight of the sacred vine added to it.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Autumn Poems 1148

Headnote: "When he visited someone serving in the sacred rites as an Omi, the women brought out a wine cup with sacred hikage vine added to it"
Seeing a wine cup brought out with the sacred hikage vine laid on it as the moon appearing with the light of the sun, the poet says it feels like a dawn with the moon still in the sky. The headnote shows it was composed when he visited someone serving as an Omi, one specially purified for the sacred rites, and the women brought out a wine cup with hikage vine laid upon it. Hiding "tsuki," moon, within "sakazuki," cup, and joining the sacred "hikage" vine with "hikage," sunlight, it likens the scene to a dawn when the sun rises into a sky where the moon still lingers.
The author, written as "Yoshinobu," is Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu, of a family of Shinto priests, who served as chief priest of the Ise Shrine and, as one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber, took part in compiling the Gosenshū. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "ariake no," means "of the dawn when the moon still lingers."
Second line, "kokochi koso sure," means "it feels like," with the binding particle "koso" resolved by the perfective form "sure." The poem breaks after this second line.
Third line, "sakazuki ni," means "on the cup," hiding "tsuki," moon, within "sakazuki."
Fourth line, "hikage mo soite," turns on the pivot word "hikage," joining "hikage," sunlight, and "hikage," the vine hung on the cap in sacred rites.
Final line, "idenu to omoeba," means "when I think they have come forth," with "nu" a perfective auxiliary. It adds by inversion the reason for the second line.
Author: Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Source: Shui Wakashu
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