Tare kinan tsuki no hikari ni sasowarete to omou ni yowa no akenu naru kana

誰来なん月の光にさそはれてと
思ふに夜半の明けぬなるかな

Roma-ji: Tare kinan tsuki no hikari ni sasowarete to omou ni yowa no akenu naru kana
English Translation: Someone will come by,
drawn by the light of the moon,
lured by it, I thought,
and while thinking so, the night
it seems has turned to morning.
Meaning: I kept thinking that someone, lured by the moonlight, would surely come, and while I thought so, it seems the night has given way to dawn.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 328

Headnote: "Watching the moon all night"
The topic is watching the moon through the whole night. Thinking that someone, lured by such lovely moonlight, would surely come to visit, the poet goes on gazing at the moon, and at last the night seems to have ended with no one coming. Both the length of the night spent watching the moon and the loneliness of having no visitor come through.
Using the same phrase tsuki no hikari ni sasowarete as the preceding poem, this one turns from the poet's own heart drawn out by the moon to a heart that waits for someone the moon will bring.

First line, “tare kinan”: na is perfective and n conjectural, surely someone will come.
Second line, “tsuki no hikari ni”: the same as the second line of the preceding poem, by the light of the moon.
Third line, “sasowarete to”: a hypermetric line of six syllables, that they would come lured, with to closing the thought begun in the first line.
Fourth line, “omou ni yowa no”: while I was thinking so, the night.
Fifth line, “akenu naru kana”: nu is perfective and naru, the attributive of an auxiliary inferring from sound, it seems the night has broken, closing with exclamation.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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