Even as snow
it only seems to fall,
these cherry blossoms;
for what purpose do they scatter
that the wind should blow so?
- Meaning
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Even when they fall gently like snow, it is already too sorrowful—why then does the wind blow, as if urging the cherry blossoms to scatter?
- Commentary
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Book II, Spring Poems (Part Two)
A poem composed upon seeing cherry blossoms fall.
Watching the blossoms scatter in the wind, the poet feels that even their quiet, snow-like falling without wind would be regretful enough, and thus questions why the wind must blow at all.
- Author
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Oshikochi no Mitsune
- Source
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Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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