Ika ni shite uramishi sode ni yadoriken idegataku mishi ariake no tsuki

いかにして恨みし袖に宿りけん
出でがたく見し有明の月

Roma-ji: Ika ni shite uramishi sode ni yadoriken idegataku mishi ariake no tsuki
English Translation: How, I wonder, did
it come to dwell in sleeves wet
with resentful tears,
the moon so slow to rise that
I watched, lingering into dawn?
Meaning: How did it come to dwell in sleeves wet with resentful tears, that dawn moon I watched so long, so slow to rise?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 887

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "The chapter on Encouraging Devotion"
Again on the chapter on Encouraging Devotion. After Mahāprajāpatī, the nun Yaśodharā, once the Buddha's wife, also receives the prophecy of Buddhahood. How did the dawn moon, so slow to rise, come to dwell in the tear-wet sleeves of one who had waited aggrieved for the prophecy? the poet asks, expressing the joy of a long-awaited prophecy through moonlight reflected in tears on a sleeve.

First line, “ika ni shite”: how.
Second line, “uramishi sode ni”: in sleeves wet with resentful tears, taking up urami from the preceding poem.
Third line, “yadoriken”: ken is conjecture about the past; how did it come to dwell; the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “idegataku mishi”: watched as it was so slow to rise.
Fifth line, “ariake no tsuki”: ending on a noun, the dawn moon as a figure for the prophecy, taking up the moonlight of the preceding poem.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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