Yo o sutete tanisoko ni sumu hito miyo to mine no konoma o wakuru tsukikage

世を捨てて谷底に住む人見よと
峰の木の間を分くる月影

Roma-ji: Yo o sutete tanisoko ni sumu hito miyo to mine no konoma o wakuru tsukikage
English Translation: 'You who've left the world
to dwell in the valley depths,
look!' as if to say,
parting the trees on the peak,
there comes the moon's bright light.
Meaning: As if to say to the one who has left the world to live in the valley depths, look, the moonlight comes pressing down between the trees upon the peak.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 754

Headnote: "Hearing that a certain person had left the world and shut himself away in a temple in the Northern Hills, I went to visit, and the moon was bright"
Hearing that someone had taken vows and lived shut away in a temple in the Northern Hills, Saigyō went to visit, and the moon being bright, composed this. As if to say, look, you who have left the world to dwell deep in the valley, the moonlight comes down through the trees on the peak. In the moonlight that reaches even the hut in the valley depths he sees the light of the Buddha shining on the recluse.

First line, “yo o sutete”: having taken vows.
Second line, “tanisoko ni sumu”: living deep in the valley, the man shut away in the temple.
Third line, “hito miyo to”: you there, look, as though the moon were calling out.
Fourth line, “mine no konoma o”: between the trees on the peak, set high against the valley depths of the second line.
Fifth line, “wakuru tsukikage”: ending on a noun, the moonlight parting the trees.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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