Akazu nomi miyako nite mishi kage yori mo tabi koso tsuki wa aware narikere

飽かずのみ都にて見し影よりも
旅こそ月はあはれなりけれ

Roma-ji: Akazu nomi miyako nite mishi kage yori mo tabi koso tsuki wa aware narikere
English Translation: More than the moonlight
in the capital I watched,
never satisfied,
it is when I am travelling
that the moon most moves my heart.
Meaning: More than the moonlight I gazed at in the capital, never tiring of it, it is on a journey that the moon moves my heart most deeply.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 411

Headnote: "At a lodging on a journey"
The headnote tells us this was composed at a stopping place on a journey. In the capital the poet never tired of the moonlight, yet it is the moon seen from the road that moves him most deeply. The loneliness of the traveller deepens the aware of the moon.
From here poems on the moon seen on journeys follow. The next poem sees the travelling moon as a keepsake of the capital, and 418 says that feeling the moon's aware in the capital was a mere pastime, so the moon of the capital and the moon of the road are set against each other.

First line, “akazu nomi”: always without tiring of it.
Second line, “miyako nite mishi”: shi is the attributive of the past auxiliary ki, which I saw in the capital.
Third line, “kage yori mo”: kage is moonlight, more than that moonlight.
Fourth line, “tabi koso tsuki wa”: on a journey indeed the moon, with koso forming a kakari-musubi with the perfective kere in the last line.
Fifth line, “aware narikere”: the perfective form answering koso, the realization of how deeply it moves the heart.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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