Machitsukete ureshikaruran tanabata no kokoro no uchi zo sora ni shiraruru

待ちつけてうれしかるらん七夕の
心のうちぞ空に知らるる

Roma-ji: Machitsukete ureshikaruran tanabata no kokoro no uchi zo sora ni shiraruru
English Translation: Having waited long,
how happy they must be now:
the two stars of night,
all the feelings of their hearts
the very sky makes me know.
Meaning: The hearts of the two Tanabata stars, surely happy now that they have waited for this day at last, make themselves known to me in the look of the sky.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 262

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Tanabata"
This is the fifth poem and the close of the Tanabata sequence. The hearts of the two stars, surely happy now that the long-awaited day of their meeting has come, can be sensed of themselves from the look of the sky that night. In the clear sky of Tanabata, the poet feels the joy of the two stars.
Like 259, it uses the word machitsukete and speaks of the joy of a wait fulfilled. Where 259 guessed at tears of joy, this poem sees the joy of the stars showing in the sky itself, so the sequence closes by dwelling again on the happiness of the two stars.

First line, “machitsukete”: having at last received what was awaited, the same word as in the second line of 259.
Second line, “ureshikaruran”: ran is the attributive form of present conjecture, how happy they must be, modifying tanabata in the third line.
Third line, “tanabata no”: the two stars, the Weaver and the Herdsman.
Fourth line, “kokoro no uchi zo”: what lies within their hearts, emphasized by zo.
Fifth line, “sora ni shiraruru”: ruru is the attributive form of the spontaneous ru, answering zo; it comes to be known of itself through the sky.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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