山たかみ人もすさめぬさくら花
いたくなわびそ我見はやさむ
いたくなわびそ我見はやさむ
- Roma-ji
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Yama takami hito mo susamenu sakurabana
itaku na wabi so ware mihayasamu - English Translation
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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
- 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
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- 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.
- From this year on, first learning what spring is, O cherry blossoms— do not learn this thing they call falling from other trees.
- Mountain cherry trees— I have come on purpose to see; spring haze rises, on the peaks and on the slopes, standing thick, concealing them.
- As years pass, my age indeed has grown old— such change there is; yet when I look on blossoms, there are no troubled thoughts.