花ちらす風のやどりはたれかしる
我にをしへよ行きてうらみむ
我にをしへよ行きてうらみむ
- Roma-ji
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Hana chirasu kaze no yadori wa tare ka shiru
ware ni oshie yo yukite uramimu - English Translation
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Who knows, I wonder,
where the dwelling of the wind
that scatters blossoms lies?
Tell it to me—
I will go and reproach it.
- Meaning
- Who knows where the wind that scatters these blossoms makes its dwelling? If anyone knows, tell me—I will go and reproach it.
- Commentary
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Book II, Spring Poems (Part Two)
A poem composed upon seeing cherry blossoms falling.
Watching the blossoms of full bloom scatter without restraint, the poet expresses the feeling by likening the wind that scatters them to a person.
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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Sakura chiru hana no tokoro wa haru nagara
yuki zo furitsutsu kiegate ni suru - Next Poem
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Iza sakura ware mo chirinamu hitozakari
arinaba hito ni ukime mienamu