この里にたびねしぬべしさくら花
ちりのまがひにいへぢわすれて
ちりのまがひにいへぢわすれて
- Roma-ji
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Kono sato ni tabine shinubeshi sakurabana
chiri no magai ni ieji wasurete - English Translation
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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
- 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
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- 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?
- Leaving nothing behind, they fall—how admirable, cherry blossoms; for in this world, if things were to remain, their end would turn unpleasant.
- Is it like this fleeting world— cherry blossoms in bloom? Even as I looked, they had already begun to fall, and were gone.
- Cherry blossoms— if you must fall, then fall; though you do not fall, no one from my old home comes here to see you.