Morotomo ni tabi naru sora ni tsuki mo idete sume ya kage no aware naruran

もろともに旅なる空に月も出でて
すめや影のあはれなるらん

Roma-ji: Morotomo ni tabi naru sora ni tsuki mo idete sume ya kage no aware naruran
English Translation: Keeping me company,
in the sky I journey through
the moon too has come,
can it be it shines so clear,
that its light so moves my heart?
Meaning: The moon too has come out into the sky of my journey, as if travelling with me; is it because it shines so clear here that its light moves me so?
Commentary: Autumn Poems 415

Headnote: "When I had arrived and the moon was very bright and deeply moving"
The headnote tells us this was composed when the poet had arrived at Itsukushima at the end of the journey of the preceding poem, and the moon was very bright and moved him deeply. The oekereba of the headnote seems to mean oboekereba, since I felt. The moon too has come out into the sky of his journey, as if travelling with him; is it because it shines so clear there that its light moves him so deeply?
Seeing the moon as a companion on the journey, he feels the aware of its light together with relief at reaching his goal. The journey in which he took the moon as his friend while held up by the wind in the preceding poem closes here with his arrival.

First line, “morotomo ni”: together, implying together with me.
Second line, “tabi naru sora ni”: in the sky of the journey.
Third line, “tsuki mo idete”: a hypermetric line of six syllables, the moon too has come out; mo means not only I but the moon.
Fourth line, “sume ya kage no”: a hypermetric line of six syllables; sume ya seems to join sume, being clear, with the question ya, is it because it is clear; it answers ran in the last line.
Fifth line, “aware naruran”: ran conjectures a cause, why its light moves me so.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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