Anagachi ni yama ni nomi sumu kokoro kana tare ka wa tsuki no iru o oshimanu

あながちに山にのみ住む心かな
誰かは月の入るを惜しまぬ

Roma-ji: Anagachi ni yama ni nomi sumu kokoro kana tare ka wa tsuki no iru o oshimanu
English Translation: Single-mindedly
my heart seeks to dwell alone
only in the hills:
who is there who would not grieve
when the moon goes down behind them?
Meaning: My heart is set, single-mindedly, on living only in the hills; for who is there who does not grieve to see the moon sink behind them?
Commentary: Autumn Poems 406

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing my feelings through the moon"
This is the sixth poem, closing the series expressing thoughts through the moon. The poet's heart is set single-mindedly on dwelling only in the hills, for there is no one who does not grieve to see the moon set behind them. He explains his life in the hills as a heart drawn to the mountains where the moon sets, accounting for his reclusion through the moon.
Where the preceding poem spoke of the trouble of a heart held to the world by the moon, this one says that longing for the moon turns him toward the hills. The series closes with love for the moon joined to a life of renouncing the world and living in the mountains.

First line, “anagachi ni”: single-mindedly, unreasonably.
Second line, “yama ni nomi sumu”: dwelling only in the hills, the poet's own life as a recluse in the mountains.
Third line, “kokoro kana”: kana is exclamatory, such is my heart; the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, “tare ka wa tsuki no”: ka wa is rhetorical, who is there who, the moon's.
Fifth line, “iru o oshimanu”: the attributive answers ka wa, who does not grieve at its setting? Everyone does. It gives afterward by inversion the reason for the upper verse.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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