Nagatsuki no ariake no tsuki no tsukizu nomi kuru aki goto ni oshiki kyō kana

長月の有明の月の尽きずのみ
来る秋ごとに惜しき今日かな

Roma-ji: Nagatsuki no ariake no tsuki no tsukizu nomi kuru aki goto ni oshiki kyō kana
English Translation: Like the dawn moon of
the ninth month, never failing,
endlessly it comes—
with every autumn's passing
how I grieve this final day!
Meaning: Like the dawn moon of the ninth month, never failing, with every autumn that comes round I grieve again for this last day.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 304

Headnote: "On the theme 'Regretting autumn'"
The poet composed this on the theme of regretting autumn's passing. From the tsuki, "moon," of the dawn moon of the ninth month he draws tsukizu, "never ending," singing that with every autumn that comes round, he endlessly regrets this day on which autumn ends.
In the source text consulted, a character at the start of line 4 is missing and has been supplied from the Teika text's kuru aki goto ni.

Line 1 means "of the ninth month," the last month of autumn.
Line 2, "the dawn moon," is hypermetric, taking up "the dawn moon" of the preceding poem, 303.
Line 3 draws from the tsuki, "moon," of line 2 the like-sounding tsuki, "ending," meaning "never ending"; lines 1 and 2 work as a preface to it.
Line 4 means "with every autumn that comes round each year."
Line 5: kana is an exclamatory final particle, "how I regret this day." The next poem, 305, also sings of autumn's parting "today," so the two stand side by side.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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