Mono omowanu hito mo ya koyoi nagamuran nerarenu mama ni tsuki o miru kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

物思はぬ人もや今宵ながむらん
寝られぬままに月を見るかな

Roma-ji: Mono omowanu hito mo ya koyoi nagamuran nerarenu mama ni tsuki o miru kana
English Translation: Might there be tonight
those who know no troubled thoughts
gazing at it too?
Unable to fall asleep,
I look upon the moon
Meaning: Are even those untroubled by care gazing at it tonight? Unable to sleep, I sit looking at the moon.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 984

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Are those without cares gazing at it tonight too? Unable to sleep, I look at the moon, she says. She cannot sleep for brooding and so looks at the moon, yet because of its beauty she imagines that even those free of care may be gazing at it tonight, setting her own sorrow beneath the moon in relief.
The author, "Akazome Emon," was the daughter of Akazome no Tokimochi. She became the wife of Ōe no Masahira and served Jōtōmon'in Shōshi. She is one of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals of the Middle Ages, and a poem of hers is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Following the preceding poem, 983, which sings of brooding while gazing at the moon alone, this one sings of brooding while looking at the moon unable to sleep. Together with the next poem, 985, poems linking brooding thoughts and the moon stand side by side.

First line, "mono omowanu": "untroubled by thoughts," imagining people unlike herself.
Second line, "hito mo ya koyoi": "ya" is an interrogative binding particle closing with "ran" in the third line.
Third line, "nagamuran": "ran" is the auxiliary of present conjecture, "might they be gazing?" The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "nerarenu mama ni": "re" is the irrealis of the potential "ru" and "nu" the attributive of the negative "zu," "unable to sleep."
Fifth line, "tsuki o miru kana": "kana" is exclamatory, "how I look upon the moon."
Author: Akazome Emon
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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