Nokori naku waga yo fukenu to omou ni mo katabuku tsuki ni sumu kokoro kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

残りなくわがよ更けぬと思ふにも
傾く月に澄む心かな

Roma-ji: Nokori naku waga yo fukenu to omou ni mo katabuku tsuki ni sumu kokoro kana
English Translation: Even as I think
that the night of my own life
has grown late indeed,
toward the moon that sinks aslant
how clear my heart becomes
Meaning: Even as I feel that the night of my life has grown late with nothing left, my heart turns clear and still toward the moon sinking in the west.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 999

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on the moon when I presented a hundred-poem sequence"
This poem was composed as a moon poem when she presented a hundred-poem sequence. Even as I think the night of my life has grown late with nothing left, my heart grows clear toward the sinking moon, she says. Overlaying the late-night moon with her own age, she does not lament but says her heart grows clear as she watches the moon sink west. It can also be read as layering a wish for rebirth in the Pure Land onto the moon sinking in the west.
The author, "Horikawa of Taikenmon'in's Household," was the daughter of Minamoto no Akinaka. She served Taikenmon'in Shōshi and became a nun when the retired empress took vows. She is one of the Six Poetic Immortals of the Middle Ages, and a poem of hers is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
It shares with "waga yo no fuke" in 997 of this book the growing late of "waga yo." Where 997 laments old age, this poem says the heart grows clear in old age, showing a different state of mind from the same awareness.

First line, "nokori naku": "with nothing left, utterly."
Second line, "waga yo fukenu to": "yo" is a pivot word meaning both one's life, one's years, and the night. "Nu" is the perfective, "that it has grown late." It answers "waga yo no fuke o" in the second line of 997 of this book.
Third line, "omou ni mo": "even as I think."
Fourth line, "katabuku tsuki ni": "toward the moon sinking west." It answers "katabuku mama ni" in the fourth line of 1003 of this book.
Fifth line, "sumu kokoro kana": "how my heart grows clear," layering the clearness of the moon and of the heart, with "kana" exclamatory.
Author: Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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