Teru tsuki no tabine no toko ya shimoto yū Katsuragiyama no tanigawa no mizu - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

照る月の旅寝の床やしもと結ふ
葛城山の谷川の水

Roma-ji: Teru tsuki no tabine no toko ya shimoto yū Katsuragiyama no tanigawa no mizu
English Translation: Is it the traveler's bed
of the moon that shines so bright,
the mountain stream's water
in the valleys of Katsuragi,
where they bind the brushwood?
Meaning: Could the water of the valley stream on Mount Katsuragi be the bed where the shining moon lies down to sleep on its journey?
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 301

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'The Moon at the Bottom of the Lake' at the house of the Hosshōji Lay Priest and Former Chancellor"
Composed at the residence of the Hosshōji Lay Priest and Former Chancellor, Fujiwara no Tadamichi. Seeing the moon reflected in the water of a valley stream on Mount Katsuragi, the poet wonders whether it is the bed where the shining moon spends a night on its journey. Personifying the moon reflected on the streambed as a traveler sleeping away from home, he depicts the charm of the moon lodging in a stream deep in the mountains.
The author, "Minamoto no Toshiyori Ason," was the son of Major Counselor Minamoto no Tsunenobu. The central poet of Emperor Horikawa's poetry circle, he compiled the Kin'yō Wakashū at the command of Retired Emperor Shirakawa and wrote the treatise Toshiyori Zuinō. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This is the final poem of the book. Where the opening poem, 226, heard autumn's arrival in the reeds of "my house," this final poem speaks of the moon's "bed on a journey," the house and the journey answering each other to close the book. Like 295 of this book, it also opens with "teru tsuki no."
The headnote's topic reads "The Moon at the Bottom of the Lake" in this text, but the poem sings of the moon reflected in a valley stream, and other texts give "The Moon at the Bottom of the Ravine."

First line, "teru tsuki no": "of the shining moon," the same opening as 295 of this book.
Second line, "tabine no toko ya": "tabine" is sleeping away from home and "toko" a bed. The interrogative "ya" asks, "is it the bed of a traveler?", and the poem pauses here. The moon reflected in the water is personified as sleeping on a journey, pairing with "waga yado" in the book's opening poem, 226.
Third line, "shimoto yū": a pillow word for "Katsuragi."
Fourth line, "Katsuragiyama no": Mount Katsuragi, on the border of Yamato and Kawachi.
Fifth line, "tanigawa no mizu": ends on a noun, naming at last the bed where the moon lodges, and closes the book.
Author: Minamoto no Toshiyori
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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