Miru ya kimi sayo uchifukete yama no ha ni kuma naku sumeru aki no yo no tsuki - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

見るや君さようちふけて山端に
くまなくすめる秋夜の月

Roma-ji: Miru ya kimi sayo uchifukete yama no ha ni kuma naku sumeru aki no yo no tsuki
English Translation: Are you watching, love?
In the deep of the night, upon
the mountain's rim,
without a single shadow, clear,
shines the autumn night's moon
Meaning: Are you watching, my love? Late in the night, over the mountain rim, the autumn moon is shining, clear and without a shadow.
Commentary: 28 The Moon in the Late Night

After their playful exchange on the frosty morning, no word came from the prince for two or three days. Wondering what had become of his reassuring talk of bringing her to his residence, Izumi Shikibu could not sleep and lay awake. Just as she thought dawn must be near, there was a knock at the gate. It was such an unexpected hour that she had someone ask who it was, and it was a letter from the prince. Because the hour was so unexpected, she wondered with deep feeling whether he too had been moved to write, and she pushed open the double door to read it.
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.
Seeing the clear moon late at night and thinking of her, the prince sent a messenger before dawn with this poem.
Gazing up at the moon, Izumi Shikibu felt it more deeply than usual. Since the gate had not been opened, she thought the messenger must be tired of waiting, and she quickly replied with "Fukenuran to omou mono kara nerarenedo nakanaka nareba tsuki wa shi mo mizu."

The first line, "are you watching, my love?" is an address with an interrogative particle. The second and third lines mean "the night grown late, upon the mountain rim," with a prefix on the word for night.
The lower verses name "the autumn night's moon, clear without a shadow," ending on a noun. By calling out to her in the first line and setting the clear moon at the end, the poem vividly conveys, together with the cold brightness of the late night, his wish that she should be watching the same moon.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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