Shiogama no ura fuku kaze ni kiri harete yasoshima kakete sumeru tsukikage - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

塩竈の浦吹く風に霧晴れて
八十島かけて澄める月影

Roma-ji: Shiogama no ura fuku kaze ni kiri harete yasoshima kakete sumeru tsukikage
English Translation: In the wind that blows
across the bay of Shiogama
the mist has lifted,
and over the countless isles
the moonlight shines so clear
Meaning: The wind blowing over the bay of Shiogama has cleared the mist, and the moonlight shines clear across its countless islands.
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 285

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed by the Retired Emperor as a moon poem when he called for hundred-poem sequences"
Like the preceding poem, this was composed on "the moon" for the hundred-poem sequences called for by Retired Emperor Sutoku. The wind blowing across the bay of Shiogama has cleared away the mist, and the moonlight shines clear over the countless islands floating in the bay. The vast scene of Shiogama, a famous place in Michinoku from which many islands can be seen at once, is captured in clear, all-pervading moonlight.
The author, "Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Ason," was the son of Fujiwara no Akisuke, Master of the Left Capital Office. Heir to the poetic learning of the Rokujō Fujiwara house, he was one of the foremost scholars of poetry of his day and wrote treatises such as the Fukuro-zōshi. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This is the last of the four moon poems from the hundred-poem sequences called for by Retired Emperor Sutoku. The "urawa no kaze ni sora harete" of 282 and this poem's "ura fuku kaze ni kiri harete" answer each other, and the group closes with the moon in a sky cleared by the wind of a bay.

First line, "Shiogama no": Shiogama is a poetic place in Michinoku, its bay a scenic spot dotted with many islands.
Second line, "ura fuku kaze ni": "by the wind blowing over the bay." Like "urawa no kaze ni" in 282 of this book, it speaks of the wind of a bay.
Third line, "kiri harete": "the mist has cleared," answering "sora harete" in 282 of this book.
Fourth line, "yasoshima kakete": "yasoshima" means countless islands, and "kakete" means "spanning, across."
Fifth line, "sumeru tsukikage": ends on a noun, the same final line as the preceding poem, 284, and 291 of this book.
Author: Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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