Kumo mo miyu kaze mo fukeba araku naru nodoka naritsuru tsuki no hikari o

雲も見ゆ風も吹けば荒くなる
のどかなりつる月の光を

Roma-ji: Kumo mo miyu kaze mo fukeba araku naru nodoka naritsuru tsuki no hikari o
English Translation: Clouds are coming now;
with the wind blowing as well,
how roughly it shifts,
all the moonlight that a while
ago shone on so calm and still.
Meaning: Clouds have come into view, and with the wind blowing too, the moonlight that shone so calmly a moment ago turns rough.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 368

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When I composed many poems on the moon"
This is the thirty-second poem in the moon series. Clouds have appeared in the sky, the wind has risen, and the moonlight that shone so calmly until now is broken up by the drifting clouds and turns rough. The quiet moonlit scene is changed at a stroke by clouds and wind.
Where the preceding poem asked the moon not to shine too clear, this one laments that clouds and wind disturb the moonlight, so the heart moves from pain at a moon too clear to regret for a moon disturbed.

First line, “kumo mo miyu”: clouds have come into view; the poem breaks after the first line.
Second line, “kaze mo fukeba”: with the wind blowing too, the perfective form with ba.
Third line, “araku naru”: turning rough, the moonlight broken by drifting clouds.
Fourth line, “nodoka naritsuru”: tsuru is the attributive of the perfective tsu, that was calm until just now.
Fifth line, “tsuki no hikari o”: the moonlight, the object of araku naru given afterward by inversion.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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