Koyoi made aki wa kagire to sadamekeru kamiyo mo sara ni urameshiki kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

今宵まで秋は限れと定めける
神代もさらに恨めしきかな

Roma-ji: Koyoi made aki wa kagire to sadamekeru kamiyo mo sara ni urameshiki kana
English Translation: Until tonight
let autumn have its end:
so they decreed,
and even the age of gods
now seems all the more hateful
Meaning: Even the age of the gods, which decreed that autumn should end tonight, now seems all the more hateful to me.
Commentary: Book Five Autumn Poems II 386

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'The Last Day of the Ninth Month' when a hundred-poem sequence was presented"
Composed on the topic of the last day of the ninth month for a hundred-poem sequence. Even the distant age of the gods, the poet says, when it was decided that autumn would end tonight, now seems all the more hateful. By reaching back to resent the ancient age of the gods that set the boundaries of the seasons, she conveys how deeply she regrets autumn's passing. It is the final poem of the book.
The author, "Hanazono no Sadaijin-ke no Kodaishin," was a lady in the household of Minamoto no Arihito, the Hanazono Minister of the Left. A daughter of Sugawara no Arinaga, she was one of the authors of Retired Emperor Sutoku's Kyūan Hyakushu.
"Kugatsujin," the end of the ninth month, is the last day of the ninth lunar month, the final day of autumn. Where the book's opening poem, 302, sang of the spatial distance of a wakeful heart traveling to faraway China, this final poem sings of the temporal distance of the age of the gods, so that the book's beginning and end answer each other.

First line, "koyoi made": "until tonight," the last night of autumn on the last day of the ninth month.
Second line, "aki wa kagire to": "kagiru" is to set a limit, and "kagire" is imperative, giving the words that decreed, "let autumn end tonight."
Third line, "sadamekeru": "keru" is the attributive of the past "keri," modifying "kamiyo" in the fourth line.
Fourth line, "kamiyo mo sara ni": "kamiyo" is the distant age when the gods are said to have ruled, and "sara ni" means "now all the more." Words of distance stand at the beginning and end of the book, answering "Morokoshi made mo" in the book's opening poem, 302.
Fifth line, "urameshiki kana": "kana" is exclamatory, closing on regret for autumn and bringing the book to an end.
Author: Hanazono no Sadaijin-ke no Kodaishin
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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