Shitawareshi nagori o koso wa nagametsure tachikaerinishi mine no akigiri

慕はれし名残をこそは眺めつれ
たちかへりにし峰の秋霧

Roma-ji: Shitawareshi nagori o koso wa nagametsure tachikaerinishi mine no akigiri
English Translation: It was your lingering,
so dear to me, that I gazed at,
long after you'd gone:
as you rose and turned for home,
the autumn mist on the peak.
Meaning: It was the trace of you, so dear to me, that I kept gazing at after you rose and went home: the autumn mist upon the peak.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1056

Headnote: "Reply"
This is Saigyō's reply to Jakunen's poem. Not you alone feel so much lingering, he answers; I too kept gazing at the autumn mist on the peak that rose after you set out for home, as the trace of you I so missed.
Taking Jakunen's closing words "the autumn mist on the peak" unchanged as his own last line, Saigyō answers from the eyes of the one who saw the mist off. The remnant left by the one who departed is gazed at as mist by the one left behind, showing well the give and take of an exchange.

First line, “shitawareshi”: re is spontaneous, "that I naturally longed for."
Second line, “nagori o koso wa”: koso is emphatic, answered by the realis in the third line.
Third line, “nagametsure”: the realis closing the koso construction, "it was this I gazed at," and the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “tachikaerinishi”: tachi is a pivot for mist "rising" and the friend "rising to return."
Fifth line, “mine no akigiri”: the closing line of the preceding poem taken whole, ending on a noun to make the answer plain.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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