Kazu naranu mi wa ukigumo no yoso nagara aware to zo omou aki no yo no tsuki

数ならぬ身はうき雲のよそながら
あはれとぞ思ふ秋の夜の月

Roma-ji: Kazu naranu mi wa ukigumo no yoso nagara aware to zo omou aki no yo no tsuki
English Translation: I, of no account,
a drifting cloud, a weary one,
far off though I be,
feel deep tenderness for you,
O moon of the autumn night.
Meaning: I, a person of no account, drift far off like a cloud, yet I feel a deep tenderness for the moon of the autumn night.
Commentary: Love Poems 521

Headnote: "Love, on the moon"
A person of no account, the poet can only gaze from afar like a drifting cloud, yet he feels deep tenderness for the autumn moon. The moon stands for a beloved of a station far above his own.

Line 1 means "of no account," a self-deprecating phrase.
Line 2 plays on uki, "floating" and "sorrowful": my sorrowful self, like a drifting cloud.
Line 3 means "though far away."
Line 4: zo binds the attributive omou, "I feel deeply moved."
Line 5 ends on a noun, the moon standing for a beloved gazed at from afar; against the moon on the sleeve in the preceding poem, it sings of the moon far in the sky.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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