Kumo ni tsukite ukare nomi yuku kokoro o ba yama ni kakete o tomen to zo omou

雲につきて浮かれのみゆく心をば
山にかけてを留めんとぞ思ふ

Roma-ji: Kumo ni tsukite ukare nomi yuku kokoro o ba yama ni kakete o tomen to zo omou
English Translation: Following the clouds,
always wandering away,
this restless heart of mine—
even fastening it to the hills,
I am minded to hold it fast.
Meaning: This heart that keeps drifting off after the clouds—I mean to hold it fast, even if I must hang it on the mountains.
Commentary: One Hundred Poems 1507

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Poems of Reflection"
The fifth of the ten poems of reflection. He means to hold fast his heart, which keeps wandering off after the clouds, even by hanging it on the mountains.
It sings of a heart in practice, trying to settle the wandering heart by fastening it to the mountains. The struggle between the heart that drifts away and the heart that would hold it is depicted. As with “tomeshi kokoro” in 1453, the holding of the heart is again the theme.

First line, “kumo ni tsukite”: following the clouds; the line has an extra syllable.
Second line, “ukare nomi yuku”: forever wandering away.
Third line, “kokoro o ba”: o ba stresses the object, "that heart."
Fourth line, “yama ni kakete o”: o is an emphatic interjectory particle, "even hanging it on the mountains."
Fifth line, “tomen to zo omou”: the binding particle zo concludes with the attributive omou, strengthening "I mean to hold it."
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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