Manabe yori shiwaku e kayou akibito wa tsumi o kai nite wataru narikeri

真鍋より塩飽へ通ふ商人は
つみをかひにて渡るなりけり

Roma-ji: Manabe yori shiwaku e kayou akibito wa tsumi o kai nite wataru narikeri
English Translation: The merchants who sail
from Manabe out to Shiwaku,
plying back and forth—
with their cargo bought, and sin
for an oar, they cross the sea.
Meaning: The merchants who sail back and forth from Manabe to Shiwaku cross the sea with sin for their oar, buying up their cargo of it.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1374

Headnote: "Hearing that merchants had come down from the capital to an island called Manabe, dealing in various goods involving sin, and meant to cross to the islands of Shiwaku to trade"
On the island of Manabe, merchants from the capital were trading in goods tied to taking life and said they would cross to the Shiwaku islands. Saigyō composed this: the merchants plying from Manabe to Shiwaku cross the sea buying their cargo, with sin as their oar.
Tsumi pivots on "cargo" and "sin," kai on "buying" and "oar," seeing even the merchants who trade in the catch as bound up with the sin of killing. After the fishermen's sins in the two preceding poems, this one sings of the merchants'. The text's last line reads "波るなりけり," which does not match the reading line "wataru narikeri"; following the reading line, 波 is taken as a miswriting of 渡, "cross."

First line, “manabe yori”: from Manabe Island in Bitchū.
Second line, “shiwaku e kayou”: plying to the Shiwaku islands in Sanuki.
Third line, “akibito wa”: the merchants.
Fourth line, “tsumi o kai nite”: tsumi pivots on "cargo" and "sin," kai on "buying" and "oar."
Fifth line, “wataru narikeri”: keri marks realization, "so they cross."
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
Prev Poem: Oritachite urata ni hirou ama no ko wa tsumi yori tsumi o narau narikeri
Next Poem: Onajiku wa kaki o zo sashite hoshi mo su beki hamaguri yori wa na mo tayori ari