さくら花ちりぬる風のなごりには
水なきそらに浪ぞたちける
水なきそらに浪ぞたちける
- Roma-ji
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Sakurabana chirinuru kaze no nagori ni wa
mizu naki sora ni nami zo tachikeru - English Translation
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In the wake of winds
that have scattered cherry blossoms,
there remains—
waves rising and surging
in a sky without water.
- Meaning
- In the aftermath of the wind that has scattered the cherry blossoms, waves seem to rise in the waterless sky.
- Commentary
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Book II, Spring Poems (Part Two)
A poem composed for a poetry contest at Teishiin on the thirteenth day of the third month in the thirteenth year of Engi.
The petals scattered by the wind and filling the sky are likened to waves rising in the air, as though the sky itself were water.
- Author
- Ki no Tsurayuki
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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