Yama fukaku kokoro wa kanete okuriteki mi koso ukiyo o ideyaranedomo

山深く心はかねて送りてき
身こそ憂き世を出でやらねども

Roma-ji: Yama fukaku kokoro wa kanete okuriteki mi koso ukiyo o ideyaranedomo
English Translation: Deep into mountains
my heart I sent long ago,
ahead of me there;
it is this body alone
that cannot leave the sad world.
Meaning: Long ago I sent my heart ahead deep into the mountains, though my body cannot yet leave this sorrowful world.
Commentary: One Hundred Poems 1504

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Poems of Reflection"
The second of the ten poems of reflection. Though his body cannot yet leave this sorrowful world, his heart he sent long ago deep into the mountains.
Longing to renounce the world while his body still lingers in it, he sees himself as divided into heart and body. Just as 1453 at the head left the heart among the blossoms of Yoshino, here too the heart is sent ahead and the body remains behind, repeating the same pattern.

First line, “yama fukaku”: deep into the mountains.
Second line, “kokoro wa kanete”: kanete means beforehand, long since.
Third line, “okuriteki”: ki marks the past, "I sent it"; the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “mi koso ukiyo o”: koso is a binding particle answered by ne in the fifth line, set against “kokoro wa” in the second line.
Fifth line, “ideyaranedomo”: yaru means to do completely, ne is the perfective of the negative answering koso, and domo is concessive, "though it cannot fully leave."
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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