Yūzukuyo sasu ya kawase no minaresao narete mo utoki nami no oto kana

夕月夜さすや川瀬の水馴れ棹
なれても疎き波の音かな

Roma-ji: Yūzukuyo sasu ya kawase no minaresao narete mo utoki nami no oto kana
English Translation: Evening moonlight
shines, and in the river shoals
the water-seasoned pole—
seasoned yet still a stranger
to the sound of the waves.
Meaning: The evening moon shines on the river shallows where the boatman thrusts his water-seasoned pole, yet however used to it I grow, the sound of the waves remains strange to me.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 589

Headnote: "There is a river called the Sagami; crossing it by boat after the moon had risen"
Crossing the Sagami River by boat after moonrise, the poet sees the evening moonlight on the shallows and the boatman thrusting his water-seasoned pole; yet, unlike the pole, he cannot grow familiar with the sound of the river's waves at night. The headnote records an actual crossing of the Sagami near Kamakura.
The Ruijū text ends the headnote with "composed."

Line 1 means "evening moon," or a night with the evening moon.
Line 2: sasu means both the moonlight "shining" and "thrusting" the pole; ya is an exclamatory particle.
Line 3 means "the water-seasoned pole," and the first three lines are a preface to narete in line 4.
Line 4 means "even grown used to it, still strange," nare meaning both the pole's seasoning in water and the heart's growing used.
Line 5 means "the sound of the waves," kana exclamatory.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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