Hikihiki ni waga etetsuru to omoikeru hito no kokoro ya sehamaku no kinu

引き引きに我が得てつると思ひける
人の心やせはまくの絹

Roma-ji: Hikihiki ni waga etetsuru to omoikeru hito no kokoro ya sehamaku no kinu
English Translation: Each pulling his way,
"It is I who've won it," so
each of them believed—
are their hearts then like this cloth,
the silk called sehamaku?
Meaning: Each pulling in his own direction, each believed, "I am the one who has won it"—are their hearts like the sehamaku silk?
Commentary: One Hundred Poems 1534

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Buddhist Poems: Three on the Dreams of King Kṛkin"
The second of the three poems on the dreams of King Kṛkin. The hearts of those who each pulled and thought they alone had won it—are they like the sehamaku silk?
Among King Kṛkin's dreams is one of people pulling at a single cloth, a figure for the Dharma splitting into many contending schools in the latter days. The poem seems to draw on that dream, singing of the hearts of those who each believe they alone have grasped the teaching. The sehamaku of the last line is hard to construe and is given as in the text.

First line, “hikihiki ni”: each pulling his own way.
Second line, “waga etetsuru to”: tetsuru marks completion, "that I have gained it."
Third line, “omoikeru”: so they believed.
Fourth line, “hito no kokoro ya”: ya is interrogative, "their hearts."
Fifth line, “sehamaku no kinu”: hard to construe, apparently the cloth they pulled at; ending on a noun.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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