Hatsuharu o kuma naku terasu kage o mite tsuki ni mazu shiru mimosuso no kishi

初春を隈なく照らす影を見て
月にまづ知る御裳濯の岸

Roma-ji: Hatsuharu o kuma naku terasu kage o mite tsuki ni mazu shiru mimosuso no kishi
English Translation: Seeing the moonlight
that lights the first of spring
without a shadow,
it is from the moon I first know
the banks of Mimosuso.
Meaning: Seeing the light that shines on the new spring without a shadow, it is through the moon that I first come to know the shores of the Mimosuso River.
Commentary: One Hundred Poems 1531

Headnote: "Ten Poems on the Gods: Two Poems on Mimosuso"
Among the ten poems on the gods, the first of two on Mimosuso. Seeing the moonlight shine without shadow on the new spring, he first comes to know through the moon the grace of the god by the Mimosuso River.
The Mimosuso, also called the Isuzu, flows beside the Inner Shrine of Ise. The poem overlays on the moonlight that leaves no corner dark the grace of the god that lights the whole world. It also echoes “itaranu kuma” in 1477 among the moon poems.

First line, “hatsuharu o”: the spring of the new year.
Second line, “kuma naku terasu”: shining into every corner.
Third line, “kage o mite”: kage is moonlight, "seeing the light."
Fourth line, “tsuki ni mazu shiru”: knowing first through the moon.
Fifth line, “mimosuso no kishi”: the bank of the Mimosuso River beside the Inner Shrine of Ise, pointing to the god there; ending on a noun.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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