Machiidete ika ni ureshiku omooen hatsuka amari no yama no ha no tsuki - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

待ち出でていかにうれしく思ほえん
二十日余りの山の端の月

Roma-ji: Machiidete ika ni ureshiku omooen hatsuka amari no yama no ha no tsuki
English Translation: Having waited long
to see it rise, how glad
one's heart must be,
the moon past the twentieth night
above the mountain rim
Meaning: How glad one must feel to have waited and seen it rise at last, the moon over the mountain rim on the night after the twentieth.
Commentary: Book Nineteen Buddhist Poems 1247

Headnote: "Composed on the line, when the three seven-day periods are completed, he will appear riding a six-tusked white elephant"
This poem was composed on the line of the Universal Worthy chapter saying that when three periods of seven days are completed, he will appear riding a white elephant with six tusks. The chapter teaches that if one who practices the Lotus Sutra strives single-mindedly for three times seven, that is twenty-one days, the bodhisattva Universal Worthy will appear riding a six-tusked white elephant. How glad one must feel, having waited for it to rise, the moon over the mountain rim after the twentieth night, he says. He likens Universal Worthy, who appears at the fulfillment of the twenty-one days, to the moon that rises late at night over the mountain rim after the twentieth of the month, and sings of the joy of seeing at last what one has waited for.
The author, "Nakahara no Ariyasu," was a court musician of the late Heian period, famed as a master of the biwa lute. He was Kamo no Chōmei's teacher in music.
Following the preceding poem, 1246, it again treats the Universal Worthy chapter and closes the series on the chapters of the Lotus Sutra in order.

First line, "machiidete": "having waited and seen it come forth," waiting for the appearance of Universal Worthy.
Second line, "ika ni ureshiku": "how gladly."
Third line, "omooen": "omoyu" means to feel naturally, and "n" is the attributive of the conjectural "mu." The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "hatsuka amari no": "past the twentieth" of the lunar month, answering the sutra's "three seven-day periods," that is, twenty-one days.
Fifth line, "yama no ha no tsuki": the moon rising over the ridge of the mountains, standing for the appearance of Universal Worthy. The moon after the twentieth rises late in the night, so it conveys an appearance long waited for. It closes on a noun.
Author: Nakahara no Ariyasu
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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