Shiguretsuru maya no nokiba no hodo naki ni yagate sashiiru tsuki no kage kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

時雨れつる真屋の軒端のほどなきに
やがて差し入る月の影かな

Roma-ji: Shiguretsuru maya no nokiba no hodo naki ni yagate sashiiru tsuki no kage kana
English Translation: From the narrow eaves
of the gabled house where showers
were falling just now,
no sooner have they passed than in
slants the shining of the moon
Meaning: The eaves of the gabled house where showers fell just now are short, and no sooner have the showers stopped than the moonlight slips straight in.
Commentary: Book Six Winter Poems 414

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on winter showers when the monk En'i urged various people to compose hundred-poem sequences"
A poem on winter showers from the hundred-poem sequences that the monk En'i, that is, Saigyō, urged various poets to compose, the so-called Futamigaura Hyakushu. The eaves of the gabled house where showers were just falling are short, the poet says, and no sooner have the showers stopped than the moonlight slips straight in. From a dwelling with narrow eaves he catches both the fickleness of showers that fall and soon stop and the winter moonlight shining in the clear interval.
The author, "Fujiwara no Teika," was the son of this anthology's compiler, Fujiwara no Shunzei. He later compiled the Shin Kokin Wakashū and the Shin Chokusen Wakashū, and is said to have selected the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This poem and the next, 415, are poems on showers from the hundred-poem sequences composed at Saigyō's urging. En'i was Saigyō's name in religion.

First line, "shiguretsuru": "tsuru," the attributive of the perfective "tsu," "where showers were falling just now."
Second line, "maya no nokiba no": a "maya" is a gabled house with the roof sloping down on both sides, and "nokiba" is the edge of the eaves. 416 of this book has the same word in "nokiba ni shigure."
Third line, "hodo naki ni": "hodo" is a pivot word meaning both the narrow span of the eaves in space and the short interval since the showers stopped in time.
Fourth line, "yagate sashiiru": "yagate" means "at once, straight away." 416 of this book places the same word in "yagate nokiba ni."
Fifth line, "tsuki no kage kana": "kage" is moonlight, and the exclamatory "kana" shows his delight at the moonlight after the showers.
Author: Fujiwara no Teika
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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