Kumite nado kokoro kayowaba towazaran idetaru mono o kiku no shitamizu

汲みてなど心通はば訪はざらん
出でたるものをきくの下水

Roma-ji: Kumite nado kokoro kayowaba towazaran idetaru mono o kiku no shitamizu
English Translation: If our hearts were one,
why then would you not draw near
and come to visit?
I have come down from the hills—
did not the chrysanthemum stream tell?
Meaning: If our hearts truly flowed together, why would you not draw on this and come to visit me? I have come out from the mountains—have you not heard it, like the water beneath the chrysanthemums?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1079

Headnote: "When I had come out from Kōya and the Ajari Kakuken seemed not to have heard of it, I sent him chrysanthemums with this"
Saigyō had come down from Mount Kōya to the capital, yet the Ajari Kakuken seemed not to know of it, so Saigyō sent him chrysanthemums with this poem. If our hearts are one, why do you not sense it and visit? I have come out of the mountains, he says, gently reproaching his friend's silence through the water beneath the chrysanthemums.
Kiku pivots on "chrysanthemum" and "hear," turning the gift itself into the question "have you not heard?" Water flowing beneath chrysanthemums was held to grant long life, and drawing that water is laid over drawing out another's heart in a witty poem.

First line, “kumite nado”: kumu joins drawing water and divining a heart; nado asks "why."
Second line, “kokoro kayowaba”: if our hearts are in communion; the irrealis with ba forms a supposition.
Third line, “towazaran”: answering nado, "why would you not visit?"
Fourth line, “idetaru mono o”: mono o is concessive, "though I have come out"; idzu also suggests water welling forth.
Fifth line, “kiku no shitamizu”: kiku pivots on "chrysanthemum" and "hear," the water beneath the flowers and the question whether he has heard.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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