Tsuki - Moon
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that the moon I see far among the clouds,
would come to rest upon my sleeve?
The year is 1140. It was on day 15 of the tenth month of the lunar calender that Saigyo became a monk. There was a beautiful full moon that night.
The heavenly silver moon floating in an empty sky is also a reminder of "another world." The moon, its beauty afar, overlaps with his past love and captures Saigyo's heart. Saigyo's mind which slips away towards the cherry blossoms also symphathizes with the clear and bright full moon.
Flower, bird, wind, moon -- each become vehicles which carry the human mind towards that which is "afar."