桜ちる花の所は春ながら
雪ぞふりつつきえがてにする
雪ぞふりつつきえがてにする
- Roma-ji
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Sakura chiru hana no tokoro wa haru nagara
yuki zo furitsutsu kiegate ni suru - English Translation
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Where blossoms fall,
of cherry trees—in spring,
it is as though
snow keeps on falling,
and will not easily melt away.
- Meaning
- Where cherry blossoms are falling, though it is spring, it is as if snow continues to fall and does not easily disappear.
- Commentary
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Book II, Spring Poems (Part Two)
A poem composed upon seeing cherry blossoms falling at Unrin-in.
The scattering of cherry blossoms is likened to falling snow.
Unrin-in lies to the south of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto; it was originally a detached palace of Emperor Junna.
- Author
- Sōku Hoshi
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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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.
- Cherry blossoms— if you must fall, then fall; though you do not fall, no one from my old home comes here to see you.
- Who knows, I wonder, where the dwelling of the wind that scatters blossoms lies? Tell it to me— I will go and reproach it.
- Come, cherry blossoms— I too shall fall away; for once our time of full bloom has passed, we will show an unsightly form to others.