Muramura ni sakeru kakine no unohana wa ko no ma no tsuki no kokochi koso sure - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

むらむらに咲ける垣根の卯の花は
木の間の月の心地こそすれ

Roma-ji: Muramura ni sakeru kakine no unohana wa ko no ma no tsuki no kokochi koso sure
English Translation: The deutzia flowers
blooming here and there in clumps
along the hedge
seem to me like moonlight falling
through the gaps between the trees
Meaning: The deutzia blooming in clusters here and there along the hedge look like moonlight filtering through the gaps between the trees.
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 139

Headnote: "Composed on deutzia blossoms"
Composed on the topic of "deutzia blossoms." The white deutzia blooming in clusters here and there along the hedge look like moonlight filtering through the trees. The traditional likening of deutzia's whiteness to moonlight is made concrete by overlaying the patchwork of clustered blossoms with the dappled moonlight that slips between the trees.
The author, "Master of the Left Capital Office Akisuke," is Fujiwara no Akisuke, son of Fujiwara no Akisue, Master of the Office of Palace Repairs. He served as Master of the Left Capital Office and rose to Senior Third Rank. He compiled the Shika Wakashū at Retired Emperor Sutoku's command, and a poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This poem and the five that follow, through 144, form a sequence on deutzia, many of them likening the white flowers to moonlight or snow and depicting them blooming along hedges.

First line, "muramura ni": "in clusters here and there."
Second line, "sakeru kakine no": "ru" is the attributive of the continuative "ri." Deutzia was often planted as a hedge. Poems 142, 143 and 144 of this book also depict deutzia on hedges.
Third line, "unohana wa": names the subject, the deutzia.
Fourth line, "ko no ma no tsuki no": "of the moonlight between the trees," likening the white deutzia to moonlight. The next poem, 140, also pairs deutzia with moonlight.
Fifth line, "kokochi koso sure": the emphatic "koso" closes with the realized form "sure."
Author: Fujiwara no Akisuke
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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