Karigoromo sode no namida ni yadoru yo wa tsuki mo tabine no kokochi koso sure - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

狩衣袖の涙に宿る夜は
月も旅寝の心地こそすれ

Roma-ji: Karigoromo sode no namida ni yadoru yo wa tsuki mo tabine no kokochi koso sure
English Translation: On nights when the moon
lodges in the tears that wet
my hunting robe's sleeve,
it seems the moon as well
is sleeping on a journey
Meaning: On nights when the moon finds lodging in the tears on the sleeve of my traveling robe, it seems that the moon too is spending the night on a journey.
Commentary: Book Eight Travel Poems 509

Headnote: "Composed on the theme of travel when he called for a hundred-poem sequence"
Composed by the Retired Emperor himself on the topic of travel when he called for a hundred-poem sequence, the Kyūan Hyakushu. On nights when the moon lodges in the tears on the sleeve of my traveling robe, it feels as if the moon too were sleeping on a journey, he says. Seeing the moon reflected on his tear-soaked sleeve as a companion sharing his rest on the road, he joins the sorrow of travel with affection for the moon.
The author, "Poem by Retired Emperor Sutoku," is Emperor Sutoku, the seventy-fifth sovereign. The first son of Emperor Toba, after abdicating he called for the Kyūan Hyakushu and had Fujiwara no Akisuke compile the Shika Wakashū. Defeated in the Hōgen Disturbance of 1156, he was exiled to Sanuki and died there. He has a poem in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This poem and those that follow through 515, seven in all, are travel poems from the Kyūan Hyakushu, the hundred-poem sequence that Sutoku called for in the Kyūan era, many of whose poems were taken into this anthology.

First line, "karigoromo": originally a robe for hunting, sung of as a traveler's robe.
Second line, "sode no namida ni": "on the sleeve wet with the tears of travel's sorrow."
Third line, "yadoru yo wa": "yadoru" treats the moonlight reflected in the tears as the moon taking lodging, a conceit shared with the opening poem, 498, in which the moon lodges in the spring.
Fourth line, "tsuki mo tabine no": "mo," "the moon too, like me," sees the moon as a fellow traveler.
Fifth line, "kokochi koso sure": the emphatic "koso" closes with the perfective "sure." Poem 517 of this book ends with the same "kokochi koso sure."
Author: Retired Emperor Sutoku
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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