Inishie no matsu no shizue o araiken nami o kokoro ni kakete koso mire

いにしへの松の下枝を洗ひけん
波を心にかけてこそ見れ

Roma-ji: Inishie no matsu no shizue o araiken nami o kokoro ni kakete koso mire
English Translation: The waves of long ago
that, it's said, would wash the boughs
lowest on the pines—
holding them close in my heart,
it is so that I now gaze.
Meaning: The waves that once, they say, washed the lowest branches of the pines—I gaze at them now, holding them close in my heart.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1219

Headnote: "Wondering whether the waves that once washed the lower branches of the pines are unchanged from the past"
At the same Sumiyoshi Shrine, Saigyō wondered whether the waves said to have washed the lower pine branches were the same as of old. He gazes at them, holding those waves of the past in his heart.
The poem draws on Minamoto no Tsunenobu's "Okitsukaze fukinikerashi na Sumiyoshi no matsu no shizue o arau shiranami" (Goshūishū), composed at Go-Sanjō's progress to Sumiyoshi. A famous poem tied to the progress recalled in the preceding poem is laid over the waves before him in remembrance.

First line, “inishie no”: of long ago, the time of Go-Sanjō's progress.
Second line, “matsu no shizue o”: the lower branches of the Sumiyoshi pines, taking up Tsunenobu's words.
Third line, “araiken”: ken marks reported past, "that are said to have washed."
Fourth line, “nami o kokoro ni”: those waves, in my heart.
Fifth line, “kakete koso mire”: kake joins "holding in the heart" with waves "splashing"; koso is answered by the realis mire.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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