Morotomo ni nishi e ya yuku to tsukikage no kuma naki mine o tazunete zo koshi - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

もろともに西へや行くと月影の
隈なき峰を尋ねてぞ来し

Roma-ji: Morotomo ni nishi e ya yuku to tsukikage no kuma naki mine o tazunete zo koshi
English Translation: Thinking I might go
together with it to the west,
I came here seeking
the peaks without a shadow
in the clear light of the moon
Meaning: Hoping that I too might journey west together with the moon, I came seeking these peaks where its light falls without a shadow.
Commentary: Book Nine Miscellaneous Poems I 539

Hoping to go to the Western Pure Land together with the moon, the poet says, he came seeking the peaks where the moonlight shines without a shadow. To the preceding poem, 538, which envied him for gazing on the moon over shadowless peaks, the one who took vows replies that he entered the mountains wishing, as the moon sinks into the west, to go to the Western Pure Land himself.
Taking up kuma naki mine from the fourth line of the preceding poem in his reply, he completes the exchange. Poem 580 in this book also entrusts to the westward moon the wish for rebirth in paradise.

First line, 'morotomo ni', means together with the moon. It is the same word as the first line of poem 521 in this book.
Second line, 'nishi e ya yuku to', means wondering if I might go west, the west standing for the Western Paradise. The particle ya expresses a question.
Third line, 'tsukikage no', means of the moonlight.
Fourth line, 'kuma naki mine o', means the peaks lit without a shadow, taking up kuma naki mine no in the fourth line of the preceding poem, 538.
Final line, 'tazunete zo koshi', means I came seeking, the particle zo answered by shi, the attributive of the past ki.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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