In this village,
I may pass the night on my journey;
cherry blossoms—
in the confusion of their falling,
I forget the road home.
- Meaning
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In this village, I feel I may end up spending the night on my journey, as I lose my way amid the scattering cherry blossoms and forget the road home.
- Commentary
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Book II, Spring Poems (Part Two)
It depicts a state of being so entranced and absent-minded within a flurry of falling cherry blossoms that one loses oneself.
- Author
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Unknown Poet
- Source
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Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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Spring haze drifts on
over mountains where cherry blooms—
as their colors fade,
is it that they will soon fall,
changing thus before they go?
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Leaving nothing behind,
they fall—how admirable,
cherry blossoms;
for in this world,
if things were to remain,
their end would turn unpleasant.
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Is it like this fleeting world—
cherry blossoms in bloom?
Even as I looked,
they had already begun to fall,
and were gone.
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Cherry blossoms—
if you must fall, then fall;
though you do not fall,
no one from my old home
comes here to see you.