Mate to shi mo tanomenu yama mo tsuki wa idenu iishi bakari no yūgure no sora

待てとしも頼めぬ山も月は出でぬ
言ひしばかりの夕暮の空

Roma-ji: Mate to shi mo tanomenu yama mo tsuki wa idenu iishi bakari no yūgure no sora
English Translation: Even on the hill
that never bade me wait for it,
the moon has risen;
you only said that you would come—
the sky at evening's end.
Meaning: Even over the hill that never asked me to wait, the moon has risen; but you, who merely said you would come, leave me only this evening sky.
Commentary: Love Poems 519

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Waiting for someone, on the moon"
Even over the hill that made no promise the moon has risen, yet the beloved, who only said she would come, does not; the poet is left with the evening sky. It draws on Sosei's poem about waiting through the night for one who "only said" she would come, until the dawn moon appeared.
Kamo no Mabuchi judged the overly clever turn of line 4 to be in the later style.

Line 1 means "even to wait," the same as line 1 of 516.
Line 2 means "even the hill that made no promise," replacing "the one who made no promise" of 516 with a hill.
Line 3 means "the moon has risen," taking up the last line of the preceding poem; the poem pauses here.
Line 4 means "you only said," drawing on "only because you said" in the source poem.
Line 5 ends on a noun. The hill that promised nothing yields a moon while the person who promised does not come, closing the poems on waiting love.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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