Ware naranu hito mo sazo min nagatsuki no ariake no tsuki ni shikaji aware wa - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

我ならぬ人もさそみん長月の
晨明の月にしかしあはれは

Roma-ji: Ware naranu hito mo sazo min nagatsuki no ariake no tsuki ni shikaji aware wa
English Translation: Others besides me
must surely be watching too
the Long Month's dawn moon;
nothing in the world can match
the deep beauty of this sight
Meaning: Surely others besides me are gazing at it too; nothing can equal the deep beauty of the dawn moon of the ninth month.
Commentary: 23 The Dawn Moon and the Jotted Verses

After the twentieth of the ninth month, waking to the dawn moon, the prince thought how long it had been since they had met and that she too must be watching this moon. Taking only his usual page boy, he went and had him knock at her gate. Izumi Shikibu happened to be lying awake, turning many things over in her mind; lately, perhaps because of the season, she had felt more forlorn than usual and given to melancholy. Wondering who it could be, she tried to wake the woman sleeping beside her to go and ask, but the woman would not get up. When at last she did, she stumbled about bumping into things, and meanwhile the knocking stopped. Had he gone home? He must think her a sound sleeper, she thought regretfully, and wondered who else had been lying awake as she was. The woman finally went out but found no one, and grumbled, "You must have imagined it. Waking people in the middle of the night," before going back to sleep. Izumi Shikibu stayed up gazing at the misty sky until dawn, and when it grew light she began writing down the thoughts that had come to her in those early hours. Just then a letter came from the prince as usual.
The woman is Izumi Shikibu, daughter of Ōe no Masamune and, as the wife of Tachibana no Michisada, Governor of Izumi, mother of Koshikibu no Naishi. The Prince of the Dazaifu is Prince Atsumichi, fourth son of Emperor Reizei, so called because he served as Governor-General of the Dazaifu.
This is one of the poems in the jottings Izumi Shikibu wrote at dawn. Thinking it better than to spend the night like this, she pushed open the double door: in the wide sky the moon, sinking toward the west, shone clear and far away, and in the misty sky the sound of a temple bell and the voices of birds rang together as one. It seemed to her that never in the past nor in the future would there be such a moment, and even the color of her tear-wet sleeves seemed rare and moving, so she wrote this poem.
These jottings were sent just as they were in reply to the prince's "Aki no yo no ariake no tsuki no iru made ni yasuraikanete kaerinishi kana." The prince answered this poem with "Ware naranu hito mo ariake no sora o nomi onaji kokoro ni nagamekeru kana."

The opening lines mean "others besides me must surely be watching," with an adverb of certainty and an auxiliary of conjecture. The third line means "of the Long Month," the ninth month of the lunar calendar.
The lower verses mean "nothing can match the dawn moon in its beauty," where "shikaji" joins a verb meaning to equal with an auxiliary of negative conjecture. Placing "beauty" at the end by inversion, she closes with lingering feeling, captivated by the moon of a late-autumn dawn; her thoughts of the prince, who might be watching the same moon, also show through.
Author: Izumi Shikibu
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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