Tomo ni narite onaji minato o idefune no yukue mo shirazu kogiwakarenuru

友になりて同じ湊を出で舟の
行方も知らず漕ぎ別れぬる

Roma-ji: Tomo ni narite onaji minato o idefune no yukue mo shirazu kogiwakarenuru
English Translation: Keeping company,
the boats that set out together
from the selfsame port,
not knowing where each would go,
have rowed off and gone apart.
Meaning: The boats that set out together as companions from the same harbor have rowed off their separate ways, not knowing where the others went.
Commentary: One Hundred Poems 1544

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten Miscellaneous Poems"
The second of the ten miscellaneous poems. The boats that left the same harbor together as companions have rowed apart, not knowing where the others have gone.
In boats that set out together from one place only to go separate ways and lose track of each other, it seems to overlay life's partings from others. Against the tomobune huddled together through the night in 1486 among the snow poems, this one sings of the parting of boats that had kept company.

First line, “tomo ni narite”: becoming companions; the line has an extra syllable.
Second line, “onaji minato o”: from the same harbor.
Third line, “idefune no”: the boats setting out.
Fourth line, “yukue mo shirazu”: not knowing where the others go.
Fifth line, “kogiwakarenuru”: nuru, the attributive of perfective nu, closes the poem, "they have rowed apart."
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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