Kagiri naku nagori oshiki wa aki no yo no tsuki ni tomonau akebono no sora

限りなく名残惜しきは秋の夜の
月にともなふ曙の空

Roma-ji: Kagiri naku nagori oshiki wa aki no yo no tsuki ni tomonau akebono no sora
English Translation: Beyond any bound,
what I find so hard to leave
is the autumn night's
moon, together with the sky
in the first faint light of dawn.
Meaning: What I find endlessly hard to part with is the dawn sky that comes, still keeping company with the autumn night's moon.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 378

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When I composed many poems on the moon"
This is the forty-second poem, closing the series under this headnote that began with 337. What is endlessly hard to part with is the dawn sky that breaks with the autumn moon still in it. The parting from the moon he has gazed at all night is mourned in the whitening sky of dawn.
Where 337 at the start of the series sang of the moon rising over the mountain rim of the capital, this poem ends with the dawn that breaks along with the moon, so the series closes as if tracing a single night from moonrise to daybreak.

First line, “kagiri naku”: beyond all bounds.
Second line, “nagori oshiki wa”: what is hard to part with, singled out by wa with its object revealed in the last line.
Third line, “aki no yo no”: modifying tsuki in the fourth line.
Fourth line, “tsuki ni tomonau”: together with the moon, the moon still in the sky after daybreak.
Fifth line, “akebono no sora”: ending on a noun, the sky as night begins to lighten.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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