Kaze fukeba eda yasukaranu ko no ma yori honomeku aki no yūzukuyo kana - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

風吹けば枝安からぬ木の間より
ほのめく秋の夕月夜かな

Roma-ji: Kaze fukeba eda yasukaranu ko no ma yori honomeku aki no yūzukuyo kana
English Translation: When the wind blows by,
through the trees whose branches sway
and will not keep still,
faint and flickering it shows,
the autumn moon of evening
Meaning: When the wind blows, the autumn evening moon glimmers faintly through the trees whose branches toss and will not stay still.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 175

As the wind blows and the branches sway, the autumn evening moon glimmers faintly between the trees. Catching the slender moonlight that appears and disappears beyond the tossing branches, the poem paints the charm of an autumn evening.
Like the preceding poem, 174, it sings of the evening moon; where that poem regrets the moon setting behind the mountain, this one sings of the moon glimpsed between the trees.
From poem 174 through poem 217 in this book a long sequence of moon poems follows, from the evening moon through the bright moon of the fifteenth night of the Eighth Month to the moon at dawn, singing of the moon in all its aspects and of the heart that gazes on it.

First line, 'kaze fukeba', means because the wind blows, ba after the realis form giving a definite condition.
Second line, 'eda yasukaranu', means the branches are not at rest, describing them tossing in the wind.
Third line, 'ko no ma yori', means through the trees.
Fourth line, 'honomeku aki no', uses honomeku, to show faintly, for the moon flickering beyond the swaying branches.
Final line, 'yūzukuyo kana', means ah, the evening moon, with the exclamatory kana. It closes on the same word 'evening moon' as the third line of the preceding poem, 174.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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