Kono yo nite musoji wa narenu aki no tsuki shide no yamaji mo omogawari suna - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

この世にて六十は馴れぬ秋の月
死出の山路も面変はりすな

Roma-ji: Kono yo nite musoji wa narenu aki no tsuki shide no yamaji mo omogawari suna
English Translation: In this world of ours
sixty years I've known you well,
moon of autumn nights;
on the mountain road of death
do not change your face, I pray
Meaning: O autumn moon, whom I have come to know so well over sixty years in this world, do not change your face for me even on the mountain path to death.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1022

Headnote: "Composed among poems on the moon when hundred-poem sequences were composed at the house of the Former Minister of the Right, now Regent"
When hundred-poem sequences were composed at the house of Fujiwara no Kanezane, Former Minister of the Right and now Regent, this was composed among the moon poems. Autumn moon I have known for sixty years in this world, do not change your face even on the mountain road of death, he says. Calling on the familiar moon that has accompanied him through sixty years to shine the same way on the mountain path one crosses after death, he sings of an aging man facing death.
The author, "Priest Shun'e," was a son of Minamoto no Toshiyori. He became a monk of Tōdaiji and gathered poets at his lodging in Shirakawa in the capital, which he named the Karin'en, the Garden of Poetic Forest. He was the teacher of Kamo no Chōmei, and a poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Its fifth line is the same as "omogawari suna" in 996 of this book. Where 996 wishes for the time one comes round again to this world, this poem wishes for the moon on the mountain road after death. It also answers "omogawari senu" in the closing poem, 1051.

First line, "kono yo nite": "in this world," pairing with "shide no yamaji," the mountain road of death, in the fourth line.
Second line, "musoji wa narenu": "musoji" means sixty years and "nu" is the perfective, "I have grown familiar for sixty years."
Third line, "aki no tsuki": a form of address, and the poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "shide no yamaji mo": "shide no yama" is the mountain of the underworld said to be crossed after death, "even on its mountain road."
Fifth line, "omogawari suna": "na" is a prohibitive particle, "do not change your face." It is the same as the fourth line of 996 of this book.
Author: Shun'e
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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