High on the mountain,
where people do not come at all,
O cherry blossoms—
do not grieve too bitterly;
I will hasten to praise you.
- Meaning
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O cherry blossoms that bloom high on the mountain where no people come to admire you, do not grieve too bitterly; I will hasten to praise you.
- Commentary
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Spring Songs, Book One
A poem composed on cherry blossoms that bloom in a high mountain place far from human dwellings.
- Author
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Unknown Poet
- Source
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Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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Seeing them fall,
that should have been all—yet
these plum blossoms,
so vexing, leave their fragrance
lingering on my sleeves.
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From this year on,
first learning what spring is,
O cherry blossoms—
do not learn this thing they call
falling from other trees.
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Mountain cherry trees—
I have come on purpose to see;
spring haze rises,
on the peaks and on the slopes,
standing thick, concealing them.
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As years pass,
my age indeed has grown old—
such change there is;
yet when I look on blossoms,
there are no troubled thoughts.