Nami ni yadoru tsuki o migiwa ni yuriyosete kagami ni kakuru Sumiyoshi no kishi

波に宿る月を汀にゆりよせて
鏡にかくる住吉の岸

Roma-ji: Nami ni yadoru tsuki o migiwa ni yuriyosete kagami ni kakuru Sumiyoshi no kishi
English Translation: Rocking to the shore
the moon that lodges on the waves,
setting it up there,
hung up as a mirror's face:
so the shore of Sumiyoshi.
Meaning: The shore at Sumiyoshi rocks the moon reflected on the waves toward the water's edge and hangs it there like a mirror.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 410

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When people visited Sumiyoshi and delighted in the moon"
This poem continues the occasion of the visit to Sumiyoshi to enjoy the moon. The waves rock the moon reflected on the sea toward the water's edge, so that the shore at Sumiyoshi seems to hang the moon there as a mirror. The moon reflected at the shore, swaying with the waves, is likened to a mirror hung before a god.
Where the preceding poem sang of moonlight leaking into the shrine, this one sings of the moon on the beach at Sumiyoshi, so the two poems portray the shrine and the shore in turn. Mirrors are hung before the gods, so the poem also carries thoughts of the god of Sumiyoshi.

First line, “nami ni yadoru”: a hypermetric line of six syllables, reflected on the waves.
Second line, “tsuki o migiwa ni”: migiwa is the water's edge.
Third line, “yuriyosete”: rocking it in, the incoming waves carrying the moon's reflection to the shore.
Fourth line, “kagami ni kakuru”: kakuru is the attributive of kaku, to hang, hanging it as a mirror.
Fifth line, “Sumiyoshi no kishi”: ending on a noun, the shore at Sumiyoshi in Settsu.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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