Kumo harau arashi ni tsuki no migakarete hikari ete sumu aki no sora kana

雲払ふ嵐に月の磨かれて
光得て澄む秋の空かな

Roma-ji: Kumo harau arashi ni tsuki no migakarete hikari ete sumu aki no sora kana
English Translation: By the stormy wind
sweeping all the clouds away,
burnished is the moon,
and with fresh light, clear it shines
in the sky of autumn time.
Meaning: Polished by the storm wind that sweeps away the clouds, the moon gains new light and shines clear across the autumn sky.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 374

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When I composed many poems on the moon"
This is the thirty-eighth poem in the moon series. The fierce wind that sweeps away the clouds seems to polish the moon, so that it gains in light and shines clear across the autumn sky. Likening the storm to something that burnishes the moon, the poet praises its brilliance once the clouds have cleared.
Following the poems lamenting clouds that will not leave the moon, here the storm blows those clouds away and the moon shines as though polished. It also echoes 362, which paired the storm that clears the clouds with the moon.

First line, “kumo harau”: sweeping away the clouds, modifying arashi in the second line.
Second line, “arashi ni tsuki no”: by the fierce wind, the moon.
Third line, “migakarete”: polished, likening the moon's growing brightness to the polishing of a mirror or a jewel.
Fourth line, “hikari ete sumu”: gaining light and shining clear.
Fifth line, “aki no sora kana”: kana is exclamatory, closing in wonder at the clear autumn sky.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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