Ureshi to ya matsu hito goto ni omouran yama no ha izuru aki no yo no tsuki

うれしとや待つ人ごとに思ふらん
山の端出づる秋の夜の月

Roma-ji: Ureshi to ya matsu hito goto ni omouran yama no ha izuru aki no yo no tsuki
English Translation: Glad it is, I wonder,
do all who have waited think,
everyone of them?
Rising from the mountain's rim,
the moon of an autumn night.
Meaning: Does everyone who has waited for it think how glad they are, as the autumn night's moon comes up over the rim of the mountains?
Commentary: Autumn Poems 308

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "The moon"
This poem continues the topic of the moon. As the autumn moon comes up over the mountain rim, does everyone who has waited for it feel glad? The poet imagines the joy of those who longed for the moonrise and lays his own joy over theirs.
Where the preceding poem told of the moon climbing high, this one tells of the moon rising over the mountain rim and catches the joy of the moonrise. In the poems that follow, the pain of gazing at the moon and resentment of clouds appear, so joy and grief over the moon alternate.

First line, “ureshi to ya”: ya is a question particle, answered by ran in the third line.
Second line, “matsu hito goto ni”: each one who is waiting for the moon to rise.
Third line, “omouran”: ran is present conjecture, in the attributive form required by ya; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “yama no ha izuru”: coming out over the ridge line of the mountains.
Fifth line, “aki no yo no tsuki”: ending on a noun, the same line as 304, the moon that people have longed for.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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