Just as smoke drifts on the winds over Mount Fuji,
Only to vanish – whither no one knows –
So, too, does my soul wander on.

The Literature of Mt Fuji: Japanese Classical Literature, Chuo University (2017) | William R. Lafleur, Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyō (2012) | Trailing on the wind, the smoke of Mount Fuji fades in the sky, moving like my thoughts toward some unknown end | Burton Watson, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home (1991)