花ちれる水のまにまにとめくれば
山には春もなくなりにけり
山には春もなくなりにけり
- Roma-ji
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Hana chireru mizu no manimani tomekureba
yama ni wa haru mo naku narinikeri - English Translation
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Following upstream
the drifting of fallen blossoms
along the water,
I found that in the mountains
spring itself had come to an end.
- Meaning
- Tracing the drifting blossoms upstream, I came in search of them, only to find that in the mountains even spring itself had already passed.
- Commentary
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Book II, Spring Poems (Part Two)
A poem composed when crossing the mountains near the end of the third month, upon seeing fallen blossoms flowing in a mountain stream.
Seeing blossoms drifting in the stream, the poet assumes there must still be flowers remaining upstream and ventures deeper into the mountains, only to find that even the signs of spring have already disappeared, expressing the passing of the season.
- Author
- Fukayabu
- Source
- Kokin Wakashu
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