After he had left Mount Takano, he went to Futamigaura in the province of Ise and, hearing that the sacred mountain in the Grand Shrine was called the Mountain of the Divine Way, he composed this, feeling that Dainichi Nyorai had manifested there.
深くいりて神路の奧を尋ぬれば又うゑもなき峰のまつ風
Fukaku irite
If to the heights
The Monk En’i
Composed in the conception of the juryō section [of the Lotus Sutra].
鷲の山月を入りぬとみる人はくらきにまよふ心なりけり
wasi no yama
Upon the Mount of Eagles
The Monk En’i
After he had left the world, he saw blossom by the Shira River and composed:
散るを見で歸る心やさくら花むかしに變るしるしなるらん
tiru wo mide
Falling flowers I’d not see –
The Monk En’i
Composed in the conception of Love before the moon.
なげゝとて月やはものを思はするかこち顏なる我涙かな
nageke tote
What grieves me so –
The Monk En’i
Topic unknown.
もの思へどもかゝらぬ人もあるものをあはれなりける身の契りかな
mono’omoFedomo
Deep in thoughts of love
The Monk En’i
Topic unknown.
逢ふと見しその夜の夢の覺めであれな長きねぶりは憂かるべけれど
aFu to misi
Meeting you I saw
The Monk En’i
Topic unknown.
知らざりき雲居のよそに見し月のかげを袂に宿すべしとは
sirazariki
I did not know-
The Monk En’i
In reply:
此の世にて又あふまじき悲しさにすゝめし人ぞ心亂れし
kono yo nite
In this world
The Monk En’i
When the Monk Saijū died, on hearing that he had been at peace at the last, he composed this and sent it to the Monk En’i.
みだれずとをはり聞くこそ嬉しけれさても別は慰まねども
midarezu to
That he had no pain
The Monk Jakuzen
When the Monk Saijū, a fellow pilgrim, became ill around Autumn time, seeing he had not long to live, Saigyō composed:
諸共にながめながめて秋の月ひとりにならむことぞ悲しき
morotomo ni
Together
The Monk En’i
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