Fukaki yama wa kokemusu iwa o tatamiagete furinishi kata o osametaru kana

深き山は苔むす岩を畳み上げて
古りにし方を納めたるかな

Roma-ji: Fukaki yama wa kokemusu iwa o tatamiagete furinishi kata o osametaru kana
English Translation: The deep mountains, see,
heaping up the mossy rocks
layer over layer,
have gathered in and stored away
all the ages long gone by.
Meaning: The deep mountains, piling up their moss-grown rocks layer on layer, have stored away within them the ages long past.
Commentary: One Hundred Poems 1511

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Poems of Reflection"
The ninth of the ten poems of reflection. The deep mountains, heaping up moss-grown rocks layer upon layer, have stored the distant past within them.
In the stacked rocks grown with moss over long years, he senses the mountain holding the time that has passed. The reflective heart that thinks on the brevity of human life is laid over the mountain's timeless span. It shares furinishi and furinikeru with the next poem.

First line, “fukaki yama wa”: the deep mountains; the line has an extra syllable.
Second line, “kokemusu iwa o”: rocks grown with moss over long years.
Third line, “tatamiagete”: piling them up in layers; the line has an extra syllable.
Fourth line, “furinishi kata o”: nishi marks completion and past, "the ages grown old and gone"; it echoes “furinikeru” in the next poem.
Fifth line, “osametaru kana”: kana marks exclamation, "how they have stored it away."
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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