Tsuki yadoru onaji ukine no nami ni shimo sode shioru beki chigiri arikeru

月宿る同じうき寝の波にしも
袖しをるべき契りありける

Roma-ji: Tsuki yadoru onaji ukine no nami ni shimo sode shioru beki chigiri arikeru
English Translation: Where the moon is lodged,
on the waves of floating sleep
that I share with it,
even here, it seems, was fated
that my sleeves be drenched with tears.
Meaning: Even here, on the waves where the moon lodges and I too sleep afloat in sorrow, there was, it seems, a bond of fate that my sleeves must be soaked with tears.
Commentary: Autumn Poems 417

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "The moon at a travel lodging"
This poem continues the topic of the moon at a travel lodging. Even on the waves where the moon lies reflected and the poet sleeps afloat on board a ship in sorrow, there was, he finds, a bond of fate that his sleeves should be wet with tears. He accepts as destined from a former life both the loneliness of the sea journey and his weeping at the moon on the waves.
Ukine plays on ukine, sleeping afloat on the water, and ukine, sleeping in sorrow. The waves where the moon lodges and the sleeves where the tears lodge answer each other, deepening the poems on the moon of the road.

First line, “tsuki yadoru”: where the moon is reflected and lodges, modifying nami in the third line.
Second line, “onaji ukine no”: ukine is a pivot word joining ukine, sleeping afloat, as on a boat, and ukine, sleeping in sorrow.
Third line, “nami ni shimo”: shimo is emphatic, even on those waves.
Fourth line, “sode shioru beki”: shioru is to droop wet with tears, that my sleeves should be wet with tears.
Fifth line, “chigiri arikeru”: chigiri is a bond from a former life, and keru, the attributive of keri, closes with lingering feeling.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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