Omoiidete tare ka wa tomete wake mo kon iru yamamichi no tsuyu no fukasa o

思ひ出でて誰かはとめて分けも来ん
入る山道の露の深さを

Roma-ji: Omoiidete tare ka wa tomete wake mo kon iru yamamichi no tsuyu no fukasa o
English Translation: Who would recall me,
and seek me out, pushing through
to come where I am—
along the mountain path I take,
through the dew so deep and thick?
Meaning: Who would think of me and come looking, pushing through the heavy dew of the mountain path I take? No one.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1427

Headnote: none
Who would think of him and come seeking, pushing through the deep dew of the mountain path he enters? the poet asks; no one.
The loneliness of a recluse entering deep mountains is entrusted to a dew-soaked mountain path. Though lamenting that no one will come, he enters the mountains resigned to it.

First line, “omoiidete”: remembering me; the line has an extra syllable.
Second line, “tare ka wa tomete”: ka wa is rhetorical, "who would seek me."
Third line, “wake mo kon”: answering ka wa, "would come pushing through? No one"; the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “iru yamamichi no”: of the mountain path I take.
Fifth line, “tsuyu no fukasa o”: the depth of the dew, the inversion naming what one would push through.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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