ちる花のなくにしとまる物ならば
我鶯におとらましやは
我鶯におとらましやは
- Roma-ji
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Chiru hana no naku ni shi tomaru mono naraba
ware uguisu ni otoramashi ya wa - English Translation
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If falling blossoms
could be stayed by weeping,
then surely
I would not yield
to the warbler’s cry.
- Meaning
- If the falling blossoms could be stopped by lamenting them, then I would not be outdone by the warbler—I too would weep all the more.
- Commentary
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Book II, Spring Poems (Part Two)
Even if one were to cry out, it would not prevent the blossoms from falling; thus, the poet suggests there is no use in lamenting like the warbler.
- Author
- Tonoshi no Yasuko
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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