Kaze sawagu ochi no toyama ni kumo harete sakura ni kumoru haru no yo no tsuki

風騒ぐをちの外山に雲晴れて
桜に曇る春の夜の月

Roma-ji: Kaze sawagu ochi no toyama ni kumo harete sakura ni kumoru haru no yo no tsuki
English Translation: Where the wind stirs up
on the far hills near the village,
clouds have cleared away;
yet clouded by the cherry blooms—
the moon of the spring night.
Meaning: On the distant hills the stirring wind has cleared the clouds away, yet the spring night's moon is clouded now by cherry blossoms.
Commentary: Spring Poems 97

Headnote: "The moon over spring mountains"
The poet sings of the spring night's moon: the wind has cleared the clouds from the distant hills, yet now the moon is veiled by the cherries in full bloom. The conceit of blossoms clouding the moon in place of clouds brings flower and moon into a single scene. Kamo no Mabuchi said the fourth line is a later style.
The Ruijū and Teika texts differ in the third line.

Line 1, "Where the wind stirs," names the wind that sweeps away the clouds.
Line 2: ochi means far off, and toyama are hills near villages; the line names distant hills.
Line 3 shows the clouds cleared by the wind.
Line 4 means the moon looks clouded by the cherry blossoms, in contrast to the cleared clouds; Mabuchi judged it a later style.
Line 5 ends on a noun. Poems on the moon of spring nights continue from here through 101, and this poem, 99, and 100 share the same closing.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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