やまざくらわが見にくれば春霞
峰にもをにもたちくしつつ
峰にもをにもたちくしつつ
- Roma-ji
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Yamazakura waga mi ni kureba harugasumi
mine ni mo o ni mo tachikushitsutsu - English Translation
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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.
- Meaning
- When I have come on purpose to see the mountain cherry trees, the spring haze rises from peak to slope, standing thick and concealing them from sight.
- Commentary
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Spring Songs, Book One
A scene spreads out like a painting.
The season when cherry blossoms bloom is a time when haze readily drifts.
In old commentaries, this poem is attributed to .
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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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.
- 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.
- As years pass, my age indeed has grown old— such change there is; yet when I look on blossoms, there are no troubled thoughts.
- If in this world there were no cherry blossoms at all, how utterly so— the heart of spring would then be so calm and untroubled.