Yo o samumi nezamete kikeba nagatsuki no ariake no tsuki ni koromo utsunari

夜を寒み寝覚めて聞けば長月の
有明の月に衣打つなり

Roma-ji: Yo o samumi nezamete kikeba nagatsuki no ariake no tsuki ni koromo utsunari
English Translation: Since the night's so cold,
waking up I hear the sound—
in the ninth month's
moon that lingers at the dawn,
they are beating at their cloth.
Meaning: Because the night is so cold I wake and listen—beneath the moon lingering at dawn in the ninth month, someone is beating cloth.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 289

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Beating cloth before the moon"
Waking from the cold of the night and listening, the poet hears the fulling block beating cloth beneath the moon that lingers in the dawn sky of the ninth month. Through the fulling block resounding in the stillness before dawn, he portrays the loneliness of a late-autumn night.
This poem was included in the Fūga Wakashū. The Teika text gives line 1 as yo o nagami. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.

Line 1, yo o samumi, means "since the night is cold," a noun with o followed by an adjective stem with mi, expressing a reason.
Line 2 means "when I wake and listen." Following "waking on an autumn night" in 268, it sings of a night of waking.
Line 3 means "of the ninth month," the last month of autumn.
Line 4, "in the dawn moon," is hypermetric. The moon past midnight in the preceding poem, 288, becomes here the dawn moon, moving time from deep night to daybreak.
Line 5: nari infers from sound; it is the same last line as 287.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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