Samidare wa kokoro aranamu kumoma yori idekuru tsuki o mateba kurushimo

五月雨は心あらなむ雲間より
出で来る月を待てば苦しも

Roma-ji: Samidare wa kokoro aranamu kumoma yori idekuru tsuki o mateba kurushimo
English Translation: Fifth-month rain, I pray,
show at least a little heart:
from between the clouds
for the moon to come shining out
I wait—and oh, how hard it is!
Meaning: O early-summer rain, have some heart—waiting for the moon to emerge from between the clouds is so painful.
Commentary: Summer Poems 164

Headnote: "Early-summer rain"
The poet calls on the endless early-summer rain to show some compassion. He voices the pain of waiting for the moon to emerge from a gap in the clouds, singing of the ache of a summer night shut in by long rain.
According to the source's note, the Ruijū and Teika texts differ in the last line. Because a character in the last line of the source text consulted could not be read, it has been supplied from the Teika text's mateba kurushimo.

Line 1 addresses the rain as if it were a person.
Line 2: namu is a particle of wishing addressed to another, "may you have heart," and the poem pauses here.
Line 3 means "from between the clouds."
Line 4 refers to the moon showing itself through a gap in the clouds.
Line 5: mo is exclamatory, closing with a lament over the pain of waiting. The waiting heart that runs from 139 here waits not for a bird but for the moon.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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