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Double layer meaning:

The waning Moon --
darkness winning
a slight beginning . . .


Literally:

The sixteenth Moon night
slightly a beginning of
darkness, I wonder ?!


[白狐]

[Matsuo Bashô # 841, autumn, 1693.]
izá-yóï wa / wázuka nì yamí no / hajíme ka ná.


"[iza in kanji says:] 16 [-yoi = yo(-ru):] night [wa:] particle denoting time //
slight-ly darkness's // beginning, I-wonder-?!"

Source: "Bashô - The Complete Haiku", translated by Jane Reichhold.