しるしなきねをもなくかなうぐひすの
ことしのみちる花ならなくに
ことしのみちる花ならなくに
- Roma-ji
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Shirushi naki ne o mo naku kana uguisu no
kotoshi nomi chiru hana naranaku ni - English Translation
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To no avail,
it cries out again and again—
the warbler’s voice;
for these blossoms do not fall
only in this one year.
- Meaning
- Though it cries out again and again, it is to no avail—the blossoms do not fall only this year, and yet the warbler laments them so.
- Commentary
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Book II, Spring Poems (Part Two)
A poem composed upon hearing the warbler sing in a flowering tree.
The warbler is taken to be lamenting the falling blossoms, yet they do not fall only this year. The poet wonders why it cries out so each year, finding its grief difficult to understand.
- Author
- Oshikochi no Mitsune
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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