大空の風に散れどもさくら花
おのがものとぞかきつめて見る
おのがものとぞかきつめて見る
- Roma-ji
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Ōzora no kaze ni chiredomo sakurabana
ono ga mono to zo kakitsumete miru - English Translation
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Though they have scattered
on the wind of the wide sky
these cherry blossoms
we gather them up and look
calling them our own after all
- Meaning
- Though they have scattered on the wind of the wide sky, we gather up the cherry blossoms and look at them, calling them ours after all.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Takekawa
A girl of the winning side went down into the garden, walked about under the tree, gathered up a great many fallen petals, brought them in, and spoke this. A girl of the losing side, Nareki, answered her, and there the exchange of six poems ends.
Where the poem before had brought in the water of the pond, this one answers with the wide sky; and where that poem called the flowers over, this one settles the matter by claiming them as already its own. "Kakitsumu" is to rake or gather together. Scattered though they are, if we gather them they are ours: it is a child's logic, and the winning side's satisfaction comes through it plainly. That even the girls take part shows how much this is a game played by the whole household.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
- Other
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- That they scatter here in the wind is the world's way but a flower that fades while it still clings to the branch I could not watch unmoved
- Flower that falls with a mind of its own to where the pond has its edge become the foam upon it and still come over to us
- To keep the cherry from scattering its colors far and wide abroad is there a sleeve in the world wide enough to cover them
- Counting over all the months and days that go by cold and heedless still how full of resentment is this evening at spring's ending