Ise no umi ya nami ni taketaru aki no yo no ariake no tsuki ni matsukaze zo fuku

伊勢の海や波にたけたる秋の夜の
有明の月に松風ぞ吹く

Roma-ji: Ise no umi ya nami ni taketaru aki no yo no ariake no tsuki ni matsukaze zo fuku
English Translation: O sea of Ise!
On the waves the autumn night
has grown deep and late—
in the moon of the breaking dawn
the wind through the pines is blowing.
Meaning: O sea of Ise! Over the waves the autumn night has grown deep, and beneath the moon lingering at dawn the wind blows through the pines.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 280

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Moon by the sea"
Over the waves of the sea of Ise the autumn night has grown deep, and beneath the moon lingering in the dawn sky the wind blows through the pines of the shore. Wave sound and pine wind and the dawn moon overlap, portraying the lonely, clear scene of an autumn dawn by the sea.
The Ruijū text gives line 2 as nami ni kaketaru, as does the Teika text. Because a variant appears alongside line 2 in the source text consulted, it has been taken as nami ni taketaru in light of the note.

Line 1, "O sea of Ise," is hypermetric, with ya an exclamatory particle. It sings of the same sea of Ise as line 3 of the preceding poem, 279.
Line 2 means "the autumn night has deepened over the waves," take meaning to pass its height and deepen. With the Ruijū reading kaketaru, the sense becomes the moon casting its light on the waves.
Line 3 means "of the autumn night."
Line 4, "in the dawn moon," is hypermetric, referring to the moon still in the sky after daybreak. Following the autumn night's moon of the preceding poem, this one sings of the moon at dawn.
Line 5 concludes the binding particle zo with the attributive fuku.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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