Omoiide yo mishi yo wa yoso ni narinu tomo arishi nagori no ariake no tsuki

思ひ出でよ見し世はよそになりぬとも
ありし名残の有明の月

Roma-ji: Omoiide yo mishi yo wa yoso ni narinu tomo arishi nagori no ariake no tsuki
English Translation: Remember, I pray,
though the days we saw together
have grown distant now,
the lingering trace of then:
the moon at break of dawn.
Meaning: Please remember, even if the days we shared have become a thing apart, the moon of dawn that lingered as the last trace of that time.
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 607

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "In autumn, when someone I used to talk with intimately had gone away, sending a letter and other things by a messenger"
Though the days they shared have grown remote, the poet asks the departed friend to remember the dawn moon they watched as a last keepsake. After telling of his own remembering in the preceding poem, he now asks the other to remember too.
The Ruijū text places it among the "poems found in other and printed texts" with almost the same headnote.

Line 1 means "remember!" an imperative, with a break after the line, turning "recalling" in the preceding poem into a plea.
Line 2 means "the time we saw, apart."
Line 3 means "even if it has become," tomo concessive.
Line 4 means "the lingering trace of what was."
Line 5 names the dawn moon still in the sky, ending on a noun as the object of line 1 in inversion; it takes the moon "we grew close to" in the preceding poem as the moon of the parting morning.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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