Sumiwabite mi o kakusu beki yamazato ni amari kuma naki yowa no tsuki kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

住みわびて身を隠すべき山里に
あまり隈なき夜半の月かな

Roma-ji: Sumiwabite mi o kakusu beki yamazato ni amari kuma naki yowa no tsuki kana
English Translation: In the mountain hamlet
where, weary of the world,
I would hide away,
all too clear and without shadow
shines the moon in depth of night
Meaning: In the mountain village where, weary of living in the world, I would hide myself away, the midnight moon shines far too clear, leaving no shadow anywhere.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 988

Headnote: "Composed on the theme "The moon at a mountain dwelling""
This poem was composed on the theme "the moon at a mountain dwelling." In the mountain village where, weary of the world, I would hide, the midnight moon shines all too clear, he says. He laments, almost reproachfully, that the moon lights up every corner of the mountain village where he means to hide quietly from the world. Praising the moon's beauty while catching its discord with the wish for seclusion, it is a poem of deep charm.
The author, "Shunzei, Master of the Empress Dowager's Household," is Fujiwara no Shunzei. A son of Fujiwara no Toshitada, he served as master of the empress dowager's household and later took the tonsure under the name Shakua. He compiled this Senzai Wakashū by command of Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
It shares the fifth line, "yowa no tsuki kana," with the preceding poem, 987. Where the preceding poem accepts the clear moon as consolation in a sorrowful world, this one laments a moon that shines too brightly on the mountain village where one would hide, so that feelings toward the same clear moon are reversed.

First line, "sumiwabite": "having grown weary of living in the world."
Second line, "mi o kakusu beki": "beki" is the attributive of "beshi," expressing what is fitting, "where I should hide myself."
Third line, "yamazato ni": "in a mountain village," a dwelling among the hills far from the world.
Fourth line, "amari kuma naki": "kuma nashi" means without cloud or shadow, "shining all too clear." The self that would hide is contrasted with the moon that lights every corner.
Fifth line, "yowa no tsuki kana": the same line as the fifth line of the preceding poem, 987, with "kana" exclamatory.
Author: Fujiwara no Shunzei
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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