Tamakushige futagamiyama no ko no ma yori izureba akuru natsu no yo no tsuki - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

玉櫛笥二上山の木の間より
出づればあくる夏の夜の月

Roma-ji: Tamakushige futagamiyama no ko no ma yori izureba akuru natsu no yo no tsuki
English Translation: Jewel comb box lid,
on Futagami Mountain
through the gaps in trees
no sooner risen than it dawns,
the moon of a summer night
Meaning: No sooner has it risen through the trees on Mount Futagami than the night is breaking: such is the summer moon.
Commentary: Book Two Summer Poems 152

Barely has the moon appeared through the trees of Mount Futagami than dawn breaks, the poet says, singing of the shortness of summer nights. The brief time from moonrise to daybreak is expressed with deft use of a pillow word and a pivot word.
Lamenting the short summer night is a traditional theme of waka, and this poem conveys it through technique, linking the pillow word tamakushige to akuru.

First line, 'tamakushige', is a fine comb box; from its futa, lid, it serves as a pillow word for Futagami in the second line.
Second line, 'futagamiyama no', is the mountain on the border of Yamato and Kawachi.
Third line, 'ko no ma yori', means through the trees, showing the moon rising.
Fourth line, 'izureba akuru', is a pivot word in which akuru means both for night to break and for the comb box lid to open, an associated word with the comb box of the first line.
Final line, 'natsu no yo no tsuki', ends on a noun, presenting the moon of the short summer night with a lingering echo.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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