Taguinaku tsurashi to zo omou aki no yo no tsuki o nokoshite akuru shinonome - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

たぐひなくつらしとぞ思ふ秋の夜の
月を残して明くるしののめ

Roma-ji: Taguinaku tsurashi to zo omou aki no yo no tsuki o nokoshite akuru shinonome
English Translation: Beyond compare
is the pain I feel at this:
while the autumn night's
moon still lingers in the sky,
the break of dawn arrives
Meaning: Nothing compares to the pain I feel when dawn breaks while the moon of the autumn night still lingers in the sky.
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 300

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
Nothing, the poet says, is as painful as the dawn that breaks while the moon of the autumn night still lingers in the sky. Loath to part with the moon he has gazed at all night, he entrusts the pain of dawn taking it from him to the sky of daybreak with the moon still in it.
The author, "Former Major Counselor Narimichi," is Fujiwara no Narimichi, son of Provisional Major Counselor Fujiwara no Munemichi, who rose to Major Counselor. Renowned as a master of kemari, courtly football, he was also versed in imayō songs and music.
As in Mibu no Tadamine's poem in the Kokin Wakashū, "Since that parting when the dawn moon seemed so cold, nothing is as hateful as the break of day," the pain of a dawn with the moon still in the sky has long been sung. This poem tells not of lovers parting but of the pain of parting from the moon itself.

First line, "taguinaku": "beyond compare."
Second line, "tsurashi to zo omou": "zo" closes with the attributive "omou." The poem pauses here and is inverted with the lines that follow.
Third line, "aki no yo no": modifies "tsuki" in the fourth line, the same run of words as the last line "aki no yo no tsuki" of 282, 286 and 292 of this book.
Fourth line, "tsuki o nokoshite": "leaving the moon in the sky," the moon lingering at dawn.
Fifth line, "akuru shinonome": ends on a noun, the break of day, naming at last what causes the pain.
Author: Fujiwara no Narimichi
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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