Tsuki wa nao yonayona goto ni yadoru beshi waga musubioku kusa no iori ni

月はなほ夜な夜なごとに宿るべし
我が結びおく草の庵に

Roma-ji: Tsuki wa nao yonayona goto ni yadoru beshi waga musubioku kusa no iori ni
English Translation: Still the moon, I think,
night by night and every night
will come to lodge with me,
in the hut of grasses that
I tie up along my way.
Meaning: Still, night after night, the moon will surely come to lodge in the grass hut I tie together wherever I stop on my way.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 413

Headnote: "Thinking of the moon at a travel lodging"
The topic is thinking of the moon at a lodging on a journey. On the road, the poet ties grasses each night in a new place to make a makeshift hut, yet the moon will surely come and lodge in it night after night, unchanged. Though the lodging changes daily, the moon alone is always beside him.
Where the preceding poem made the moon a keepsake of the capital, this one sees it as a companion on the road. The moon dwelling in a grass hut also echoes the poems on moonlight leaking into a hut, such as 348 and 369.

First line, “tsuki wa nao”: the moon, still.
Second line, “yonayona goto ni”: night after night, each night of the journey.
Third line, “yadoru beshi”: beshi is conjectural, it will surely lodge; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “waga musubioku”: which I tie together and set up, the makeshift lodging of a journey.
Fifth line, “kusa no iori ni”: in a rough hut of grass, the place where the moon lodges, given afterward by inversion.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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