Tsuki no yo yagate tomo to o narite izuku ni mo hito shirazaran sumika oshieyo

月の夜やがて友とをなりていづくにも
人知らざらん住みか教へよ

Roma-ji: Tsuki no yo yagate tomo to o narite izuku ni mo hito shirazaran sumika oshieyo
English Translation: On this moonlit night,
become at once my friend, and
to anywhere at all,
some dwelling no one knows of—
show me the way to it.
Meaning: On this moonlit night, become my friend at once, and show me some dwelling, anywhere at all, that no one knows.
Commentary: One Hundred Poems 1482

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Poems on the Moon"
The closing poem of the ten on the moon. On a moonlit night he asks the moon to become his friend at once and show him a dwelling, anywhere at all, unknown to others.
Taking the moon as his only friend, it sings of the wish to hide away where no one knows him. The heart that in 1479 held the moon as its lifelong memory here unfolds into the wish to leave the world with the moon as guide. The opening runs well over its syllable count from the first line into the second.

First line, “tsuki no yo”: on a moonlit night; together with the next line it runs to seven syllables, well over the count.
Second line, “yagate tomo to o”: yagate means at once, and o is an interjectory particle, "becoming my friend at once."
Third line, “narite izuku ni mo”: becoming so, and anywhere at all.
Fourth line, “hito shirazaran”: n is conjecture in attributive form, "that no one would know."
Fifth line, “sumika oshieyo”: show me the dwelling, the imperative calling to the moon.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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