Nakiwataru kari no hakaze ni kumo kiete yo fukaki sora ni sumeru tsukikage

鳴きわたる雁の羽風に雲消えて
夜深き空に澄める月影

Roma-ji: Nakiwataru kari no hakaze ni kumo kiete yo fukaki sora ni sumeru tsukikage
English Translation: Crying as they cross,
by the wind of the geese's wings
the clouds are blown away—
in the deep sky of the night
clear and bright the moonlight shines.
Meaning: The wind of the wings of the crying geese sweeps the clouds away, and in the late-night sky the moonlight shines clear.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 227

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Geese before the moon"
The wind from the wings of geese crossing the sky with cries sweeps the clouds away, and the moonlight shines clear in the late-night sky. Through the bold conceit of wing-wind clearing the clouds, the poet heightens the purity of the moonlight.
Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle. In the source text consulted, a character at the start of line 4 is missing and has been supplied from the Teika text's yo fukaki sora ni.

Line 1 means "crying as they cross the sky."
Line 2, hakaze, is the wind stirred by beating wings.
Line 3, "the clouds vanish," pictures the wing-wind sweeping the clouds away. Taking up the geese parting the clouds in the preceding poem, 226, here their wing-wind makes the clouds disappear.
Line 4 means "in the late-night sky."
Line 5 ends on a noun, with ru the attributive of the resultative ri, giving last the moonlight shining clear.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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