Omoiideyo mitsu no hamamatsu yosodatsu to shiga no uranami tatan tamoto o

思ひ出でよ三津の浜まつよそだつと
志賀の浦波立たん袂を

Roma-ji: Omoiideyo mitsu no hamamatsu yosodatsu to shiga no uranami tatan tamoto o
English Translation: Bring back to your mind
the pines of Mitsu, waiting—
that you've grown distant,
my sleeves where waves will rise
like the waves on Shiga Bay.
Meaning: Remember me, waiting like the pines on Mitsu's shore, and my sleeves where tears will rise like the waves of Shiga Bay because you have grown distant.
Commentary: One Hundred Poems 1498

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Poems on Love"
The sixth of the ten poems on love. He asks his love to remember his sleeves, which, as he waits like the pines of Mitsu shore and grieves that she has grown distant, will rise with tears like the waves of Shiga Bay.
Mitsu and Shiga were both places on the shores of Lake Biwa in Ōmi, and the poem sings of the grief of waiting love through scenes of the lake. Matsu, pine, is joined with matsu, to wait, and the rising of the bay's waves is laid over the sleeves where waves of tears rise.

First line, “omoiideyo”: remember, an imperative address; the line has an extra syllable.
Second line, “mitsu no hamamatsu”: Mitsu is a place on Lake Biwa in Ōmi, and matsu is a pivot word joining pine and waiting.
Third line, “yosodatsu to”: growing distant.
Fourth line, “shiga no uranami”: the waves of Shiga Bay in Ōmi, laid over the waves of tears in the fifth line.
Fifth line, “tatan tamoto o”: n is conjecture in attributive form, "the sleeves where waves will rise," in inversion.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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