Tare mo mina kotowari to koso sadamurame hiru o arasou aki no yo no tsuki

誰もみなことわりとこそ定むらめ
昼をあらそふ秋の夜の月

Roma-ji: Tare mo mina kotowari to koso sadamurame hiru o arasou aki no yo no tsuki
English Translation: All, without exception,
would decide that it is right,
and judge it so, I'm sure:
the moon of the autumn night
that contends with day in light.
Meaning: Everyone, I am sure, would judge it only right that the autumn night's moon should vie with the day itself in brightness.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 364

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When I composed many poems on the moon"
This is the twenty-eighth poem in the moon series. Seeing the autumn moon vie with the day in brightness, everyone would judge it only fitting that the moon does not lose to the day. Likening moon and day to contestants and people to judges, the poem takes the form of a poetry match.
It closes the poems from 358 on that mistake the moonlit night for day, praising the moon's brightness most strongly by setting it in contest with the day.

First line, “tare mo mina”: everyone.
Second line, “kotowari to koso”: kotowari means reason, what is fitting, and koso forms a kakari-musubi with rame in the third line.
Third line, “sadamurame”: sadamu is to judge or decide, and rame is the perfective form of the present conjectural ramu; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “hiru o arasou”: vying with the day in brightness, personifying the moon.
Fifth line, “aki no yo no tsuki”: ending on a noun, the moon contending with the day, the subject of the judgment given afterward by inversion.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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