Ukigumo no kakaru hodo dani aru mono o kakure na hate so ariake no tsuki - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

うき雲のかかるほどだにあるものを
隠れな果てそ有明の月

Roma-ji: Ukigumo no kakaru hodo dani aru mono o kakure na hate so ariake no tsuki
English Translation: Even while the clouds,
drifting, sorrowful, pass by,
it is hard to bear;
do not hide yourself away,
moon that lingers into dawn
Meaning: Even while the drifting clouds cover you it is hard to bear; do not hide yourself away completely, O moon lingering into the dawn.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1000

Headnote: "Sent when Fujiwara no Muneko of the junior first rank, gravely ill and long absent from court, had word conveyed to me that she felt forlorn"
Fujiwara no Muneko of the junior first rank had fallen gravely ill and had long been absent from court, and she had word conveyed to the emperor of her forlorn feelings; this poem was sent in response. Even while the drifting clouds cover you it is hard enough; do not hide yourself away, moon of dawn, he says. Likening the ailing Muneko to the moon at dawn and her illness to clouds across it, he expresses his earnest wish that she not die.
The author, the "Imperial Poem of Retired Emperor Konoe," is by Emperor Konoe. A son of Emperor Toba, his mother was Bifukumon'in Fujiwara no Nariko. He ascended the throne as a small child but died young at seventeen.
This poem, the next poem, 1001, and 1006 and 1015 of this book sing of "the moon at dawn," and this poem shares its fifth line with 1006 and 1015.

First line, "ukigumo no": "uki" is a pivot word meaning both floating and sorrowful, the clouds standing for her illness.
Second line, "kakaru hodo dani": "dani" means even, "even while the clouds cover it."
Third line, "aru mono o": "mono o" is an adversative conjunctive particle, "though it is already forlorn." The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "kakure na hate so": a prohibition in the form "na ... so," "do not hide away completely," overlaying the hiding of the moon with dying.
Fifth line, "ariake no tsuki": the moon remaining in the sky after dawn, a form of address standing for Muneko, ending in a noun. It is the same phrase as in the second line of the next poem, 1001, and the fifth lines of 1006 and 1015 of this book.
Author: Emperor Konoe
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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