Urameshiku kaerikeru kana tsukuyo ni wa konu hito o dani matsu to koso kike - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

恨めしく帰りけるかな月夜には
来ぬ人をだに待つとこそ聞け

Roma-ji: Urameshiku kaerikeru kana tsukuyo ni wa konu hito o dani matsu to koso kike
English Translation: How bitter it is
that you have gone back home —
on a moonlit night,
they say, one waits even for
the one who will not come
Meaning: How bitter that you went home! On a moonlit night, I have heard, people wait even for someone who will not come.
Commentary: Book Nine Miscellaneous Poems I 301

The poet resents a visitor who came on a beautiful moonlit night only to leave early. Though one hears that on such nights people wait even for someone who will not come, here one who came has gone; through this contrast the poem expresses reluctance to part.
Poem 298 of this book waits for someone from moonrise to moonset, so that a poem of waiting and a poem of one who leaves echo each other.

The first line, "urameshiku" (how bitter), expresses resentment toward the one who left.
The second line, "kaerikeru kana," combines the attributive exclamatory "keri" and "kana": you have gone home, with a break after the second line.
The third line, "tsukuyo ni wa," singles out the moonlit night with "wa."
The fourth line, "konu hito o dani," uses "dani": even one who does not come, contrasting with one who came and left.
The final line, "matsu to koso kike," forms a kakari-musubi of "koso" and the perfective "kike": though I have heard that people wait.
Author: Prince Tomohira
Source: Shika Wakashu
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