Omoe tada iriyarazarishi ariake no tsuki yori saki ni ideshi kokoro o - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思へただ入りやらざりし有明の
月より先に出でし心を

Roma-ji: Omoe tada iriyarazarishi ariake no tsuki yori saki ni ideshi kokoro o
English Translation: Just think of it, please:
before the moon of dawn,
which had not yet set,
before that moon I had to leave,
the heart that went from you
Meaning: Just think of it: the heart that had to leave you even before the moon of dawn, which had not yet set.
Commentary: Book Thirteen Love Poems III 806

Headnote: "Sent after I had gone to a secret place and returned deep in the night under the moon of dawn"
Sent after he had gone to a woman's secret place and returned deep in the night while the moon of dawn still lingered. Just think, he says, of my heart that left before the dawn moon, which had not yet set. The moon still lingered in the sky without setting, yet he, fearing to be seen, had to leave her before it did, and through the contrast of the moon's "setting" and his own "leaving" he conveys the pain of a parting full of lingering regret.
The author, "Provisional Middle Counselor Michichika," is Minamoto no Michichika. The son of Palace Minister Minamoto no Masamichi, he later rose to Palace Minister and was called the Tsuchimikado Palace Minister. He held real power at court under the cloistered rule of Retired Emperor Go-Toba.
The preceding poem leaves the heart behind on the bed of parting, while this one asks her to think of a heart that left before the moon, so that the two poems portray the lingering regret of the morning after from both sides, the heart that stays and the heart that goes.

First line, "omoe tada": the imperative, "just think." The poem pauses here and stands in inverted order with the lines that follow.
Second line, "iriyarazarishi": "iriyaru" is to set completely, "zari" is negative, and "shi" the attributive of the past "ki," "that had not yet set."
Third line, "ariake no": "of the dawn," the moon still in the sky after daybreak, leading into "tsuki" in the fourth line.
Fourth line, "tsuki yori saki ni": "before the dawn moon," showing how early he "left" against the moon's "setting" in the second line.
Fifth line, "ideshi kokoro o": "my heart that left her," the object of "omoe" in the first line. "Iri," setting, in the second line and "ide," leaving, in the last form a pair.
Author: Minamoto no Michichika
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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