Tsuki o mite kokoro ukareshi inishie no aki ni mo sara ni meguriainuru

月を見て心浮かれしいにしへの
秋にもさらにめぐりあひぬる

Roma-ji: Tsuki o mite kokoro ukareshi inishie no aki ni mo sara ni meguriainuru
English Translation: Gazing at the moon,
how my heart once wandered off
in the autumns past:
now to one such autumn more
I have come round again, I see.
Meaning: I have come round again to an autumn like those of long ago, when the sight of the moon set my heart wandering.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 349

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When I composed many poems on the moon"
This is the thirteenth poem in the moon series. Long ago, gazing at the moon, the poet's heart would leave him and wander; now he has met with such an autumn once again. Seeing tonight's moon, he notices that his heart is drawn out as it was in the past, and he feels as if he had met the days gone by once more.
It was included in the miscellaneous poems of the Shin Kokin Wakashū, where it is placed beside 351, in which the moon dwells in the sleeves all night; both poems recall autumns past through the moon. From here to 351, poems linking the moon with the past continue.

First line, “tsuki o mite”: gazing at the moon, a picture of the poet in the past.
Second line, “kokoro ukareshi”: ukaru is for the heart to leave the body and wander, and shi is the attributive of the past auxiliary ki.
Third line, “inishie no”: of the bygone past.
Fourth line, “aki ni mo sara ni”: sara ni means anew, once again.
Fifth line, “meguriainuru”: nuru is the attributive of the perfective nu, ending in the attributive with lingering feeling, I have met it again.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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