Komu yo ni wa kokoro no uchi ni arawasan akade yaminuru tsuki no hikari o - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

来む世には心のうちにあらはさん
飽かでやみぬる月の光を

Roma-ji: Komu yo ni wa kokoro no uchi ni arawasan akade yaminuru tsuki no hikari o
English Translation: In the world to come
I will show within my heart
the light of the moon
that I never had my fill of,
ended now in darkness here
Meaning: In the world to come I will make it appear within my heart: the light of the moon, which I could never gaze at enough before this life came to an end.
Commentary: Book Sixteen Miscellaneous Poems I 1023

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on the moon"
This poem was composed as a moon poem. In the world to come I will reveal within my heart the moonlight I never had my fill of before it ended, he says. He wishes that the moonlight, which he could never gaze at enough in this world, might appear in the next as the light of enlightenment within his own heart. Characteristic of Saigyō, who loved the moon all his life, it is a poem in which attachment to the moon and aspiration to the Buddhist path become one.
The author, "Priest En'i," is Saigyō. His lay name was Satō Norikiyo; he served as a guard of the north quarters under Retired Emperor Toba but took vows at twenty-three. He traveled the provinces composing many poems, and his personal collection is the Sankashū. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This is the last of the moon poems that continued from 978 of this book. Following the preceding poem, 1022, which sings of the moon on the mountain road of death, this one sings of the moon within the heart in the next world, closing the group of moon poems with a wish for the life to come.

First line, "komu yo ni wa": "mu" is conjectural, "in the world that will come," the next life. It pairs with "kono yo nite" in the first line of the preceding poem, 1022.
Second line, "kokoro no uchi ni": "within my heart."
Third line, "arawasan": "n" is the volitional "mu," "I will make it appear." The poem pauses here, and what follows is inverted.
Fourth line, "akade yaminuru": "de" is a negative conjunctive particle, and "yaminuru," having come to an end, echoes "yami," darkness, "that ended before I had my fill."
Fifth line, "tsuki no hikari o": "the light of the moon," the object of "arawasan" in the third line, placed after it in inversion.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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