Ikukaeri yukiki no mine no somikakuda suzukakegoromo kitsutsu narekemu

幾返り往来の峰のそみかくだ
鈴懸衣きつつなれけむ

Roma-ji: Ikukaeri yukiki no mine no somikakuda suzukakegoromo kitsutsu narekemu
English Translation: How many times now
on the peaks of coming and going,
in somikakuda,
their robes of the ascetic
worn soft as they came and went?
Meaning: How many times, on the peaks where they came and went, must they have worn their coarse ascetic robes until they grew soft and familiar?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 612

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed later, after meeting Hōgen Jōnin and hearing him tell of Mount Ōmine"
The poet imagines the years in which the ascetics travelled again and again from peak to peak, practising in their coarse robes. It closes the series inspired by Jōnin's tales of Ōmine.
The Ruijū text places it in its section on the gods. Kamo no Mabuchi glosses somikakuda as somin shosatsu.

Line 1 means "how many times."
Line 2 means "of the peaks of going and coming," the ascetic's traverse from peak to peak as at Ōmine.
Line 3, somikakuda, names the coarse robe of ascetics or its pattern.
Line 4 names the suzukake robe, taking up the opening of the preceding poem.
Line 5 means "came and wore them soft," with the same double meanings, the same last line as the preceding poem.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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