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- Sankashu
Anagachi ni niwa o sae haku arashi kana sa koso kokoro ni hana o makaseme
How forcefully the storm sweeps away even the blossoms on the garden floor! Granted, I might leave the flowers on the branches to your will, but not these.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ada ni chiru sa koso kozue no hana narame sukoshi wa nokose haru no yamakaze
To fall so fleetingly is, I know, the way of blossoms on the boughs; still, leave a few at least, O mountain wind of spring.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kokoroetsu tada hitosuji ni ima yori wa hana o oshimade kaze o itowan
Now I understand. From now on, with a single mind, I will stop grieving for the blossoms and simply hate the wind.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yoshinoyama sakura ni magau shirakumo no chirinan nochi wa harezu mo aranan
On Mount Yoshino, you white clouds so like the cherries, after the blossoms have fallen, I wish you would never clear away.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hana to miba sasuga nasake o kakemashi o kumo tote kaze no harau naru beshi
Had it seen them as blossoms, the wind would surely have shown some mercy. It must be sweeping them away, taking them for clouds.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kaze sasou hana no yukue wa shiranedomo oshimu kokoro wa mi ni tomarikeri
I do not know where the blossoms have gone, lured away by the wind, but the heart that grieves for them stays on within me.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hanazakari kozue o sasou kaze nakute nodoka ni chirasu haru ni awabaya
I wish I might meet a spring when, with the blossoms at their height and no wind to lure them from the boughs, they scatter in peace.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kaze arami kozue no hana no nagarekite niwa ni nami tatsu Shirakawa no sato
The wind blows so roughly that blossoms come streaming from the treetops, and white waves rise across the garden in the village of Shirakawa.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ada ni chiru kozue no hana o nagamureba niwa ni wa kienu yuki zo tsumoreru
As I gaze at the treetop blossoms scattering so fleetingly, a snow that never melts lies piled in the garden.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Chiru hana no iori no ue o fuku naraba kaze iru majiku meguri kakowan
If the falling blossoms are to thatch the roof of my hut, I will fence it all around so that the wind cannot get in.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Harukaze no hana o chirasu to miru yume wa samete mo mune no sawagu narikeri
When I dream that the spring wind is scattering the blossoms, even after I wake my heart is still pounding.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yamazakura eda kiru kaze no nagori naku hana o sanagara waga mono ni suru
The wind that slashes through the boughs of the mountain cherry leaves not a trace behind, and takes the blossoms, every one, for its own.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kozue utsu ame ni shiorete chiru hana no oshiki kokoro o nani ni tatoen
The blossoms droop in the rain beating on the treetops and fall. To what could I ever compare the grief I feel for them?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yoshinoyama hitomura miyuru shirakumo wa sakiokuretaru sakura naru beshi
That single patch of white cloud visible on Mount Yoshino must be the cherries that were late to bloom.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yoshinoyama hito ni kokoro o tsukegao ni hana yori saki ni kakaru shirakumo
On Mount Yoshino, as if to turn people's hearts toward what is coming, white clouds hang on the peaks before the blossoms open.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yama samumi hana saku beku mo nakarikeri amari kanete mo tazunekinikeru
The mountains are still so cold there is no sign the blossoms will open. I have come looking for them much too early.
Sankashu - Saigyō