心ざしふかくそめてし折りければ
消えあえぬ雪の花とみゆらむ
消えあえぬ雪の花とみゆらむ
- Roma-ji
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Kokorozashi fukaku someteshi orikereba
kieaenu yuki no hana to miyuramu - English Translation
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With deep intent
I stained my heart at that time;
so it may be seen
as flowers of snow
that could not fade away.
- Meaning
- Because I set my heart so deeply upon them when I broke off the branch, the snow that could not quite melt away may be seen as flowers.
- Commentary
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Spring Songs, Book One.
There is also a reading that takes "orikereba" as "orikereba" meaning "as I sat," in which case it means that I waited with deep feeling, wondering whether they would bloom.
"Kokorozashi" means one’s affection for the flowers.
The commentary attributes this poem to Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, Grand Minister of State.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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- In anguish falls this rain that pours and pours— Miwa’s cape; at Sano’s crossing there is not even a house at all.
- When spring has come, will it be seen as flowers? On white snow clinging to the branches, the bush warbler cries.
- Though I stand here in the light of spring’s own sun, still upon my head the snow falls down, and this is wretched to me.
- When haze arises, and buds on the trees are spring, if the snow should fall, even this village with no flowers has flowers falling down.