Kumo haruru washi no miyama no tsukikage o kokoro sumite ya kimi nagamuran

雲晴るる鷲の御山の月影を
心澄みてや君眺むらん

Roma-ji: Kumo haruru washi no miyama no tsukikage o kokoro sumite ya kimi nagamuran
English Translation: The clouds cleared away,
the moonlight on the holy
Vulture Peak, do you,
with your heart now grown clear,
gaze upon it where you are?
Meaning: The moonlight on the Vulture Peak, with the clouds now cleared away, do you gaze upon it now, departed one, with your heart grown clear?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 890

Headnote: "When the Lotus Sutra was copied chapter by chapter in dedication for someone who had died, on the chapter on the Life Span, on behalf of another"
When the Lotus Sutra was copied chapter by chapter in dedication for someone who had died, the poet took the chapter on the Life Span on behalf of another and composed this. Does the departed, with his heart grown clear, now gaze on the moonlight of the Vulture Peak with the clouds cleared away? he asks, praying that the departed has been reborn in the Buddha's realm. Like the two poems before, it sings of the moon of the Vulture Peak in the chapter on the Life Span.

First line, “kumo haruru”: with the clouds cleared, hinting at delusion cleared.
Second line, “washi no miyama no”: the holy Vulture Peak.
Third line, “tsukikage o”: the moonlight, a figure for the Buddha.
Fourth line, “kokoro sumite ya”: ya is answered by ran in the fifth line.
Fifth line, “kimi nagamuran”: kimi is the departed; does he gaze on it?
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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