Fukaku irite Kamiji no oku o tazunureba mata ue mo naki mine no matsukaze - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

深く入りて神路の奥を尋ぬれば
又上もなき峰の松風

Roma-ji: Fukaku irite Kamiji no oku o tazunureba mata ue mo naki mine no matsukaze
English Translation: Going deep within,
when I seek the inmost heart
of Mount Kamiji,
there is nothing higher than
the pine wind on the peak
Meaning: When I go deep into Mount Kamiji and seek its innermost reaches, there blows on the peak a pine wind beyond which there is nothing higher.
Commentary: Book Twenty Shinto Poems 1278

Headnote: "Composed thinking of the manifestation of Mahāvairocana, since the sacred mountain of the Grand Shrine is called Mount Kamiji, when, having grown restless and left Mount Kōya, I was staying at a mountain temple at Futami Bay in Ise"
Having grown unable to settle on Mount Kōya and left it, he was staying at a mountain temple at Futami Bay in Ise, and since the sacred mountain of the Grand Shrine is called Mount Kamiji, he composed this thinking of Mahāvairocana's manifestation there. The original form of Amaterasu at Ise was held to be Mahāvairocana. Going deep to seek the inmost reaches of Kamiji, there is the pine wind on the peak, with nothing higher, he says. He overlays the path deep into Mount Kamiji with a heart seeking the original form of the god, and entrusts to the pure pine wind on the peak his sense of meeting at last the supreme Buddha, Mahāvairocana.
The author, "En'i Hōshi," is Saigyō. His lay name was Satō Norikiyo, and he served as a guard of the north quarters of Retired Emperor Toba before taking the tonsure and traveling the provinces. His personal collection is the Sankashū.
Poems on the gods of Ise continue from here, and the next poem, 1279, was also composed at the Grand Shrine of Ise. Where 1276 in this book thinks of Śākyamuni as the original form of Hiyoshi, this poem thinks of Mahāvairocana as the original form of Ise.

First line, "fukaku irite": a line of six syllables, one over the count. Going deep into Mount Kamiji is overlaid with a heart seeking deeply the god's original form.
Second line, "Kamiji no oku o": Kamiji is the mountain behind the Inner Shrine of Ise, its name sounding of a road the gods travel.
Third line, "tazunureba": "when I seek it out."
Fourth line, "mata ue mo naki": "with nothing higher," calling to mind Mahāvairocana, the supreme Buddha.
Fifth line, "mine no matsukaze": the wind in the pines blowing across the peak, closing on a noun.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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