Akikaze ni yo no fukeyukeba hisakata no ama no kawara ni tsuki katabukinu

秋風に夜の更けゆけば久方の
天の河原に月傾きぬ

Roma-ji: Akikaze ni yo no fukeyukeba hisakata no ama no kawara ni tsuki katabukinu
English Translation: In the autumn wind
as the night grows deep and late,
in the far heavens
on the riverbanks of stars
the moon has begun to sink.
Meaning: As the night deepens in the autumn wind, the moon has sunk low over the riverbanks of the River of Heaven.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 201

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On a night at the beginning of autumn when the moon was bright"
As the night deepens in the autumn wind, the moon sinks westward over the riverbanks of the River of Heaven. The moon that crossed the bridge of magpies in the preceding poem leans toward the heavenly riverbank as time passes, quietly portraying the deepening of an early-autumn night.
This poem was included in the Shinshokukokin Wakashū. Kamo no Mabuchi gave it a double circle.

Line 1 means "in the blowing autumn wind."
Line 2: ba after the evaluative form marks the flow of time, "as the night grows late."
Line 3, hisakata no, is a pillow word for "heaven."
Line 4 repeats the line found in 193, 194, and 199; the setting of the Tanabata poems here becomes the place where the moon goes down.
Line 5: nu marks completion, "the moon has sunk." The same last line appears in 230 and 282, repeated as a way of marking the late night by the moon's descent.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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