Kaze fukaba mine ni wakaremu kumo o dani arishi nagori no katami tomo miyo - Shin Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

風吹かば峰に別れむ雲をだに
ありしなごりの形見とも見よ

Roma-ji: Kaze fukaba mine ni wakaremu kumo o dani arishi nagori no katami tomo miyo
English Translation: When the wind blows, clouds
will part upon the peak;
even these, at least,
look upon as keepsakes of
the remnants of what we were.
Meaning: When the wind blows, the clouds will part on the mountain peak; look upon even those clouds, at least, as keepsakes of what once was between us.
Commentary: Book Fourteen Love Poems IV 1292

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "For the hundred-poem contest at the house of the Regent and Grand Minister."
This is the second poem of the sequence on love being forgotten. Look at least upon the clouds that part on the peak when the wind blows, the speaker says, as keepsakes of what once was. Continuing from the preceding poem, it was submitted to a poetry contest of hundred-poem sequences held at the house of Fujiwara no Yoshitsune.
The author, "Ietaka, Lord of the Court," is Fujiwara no Ietaka. A son of Fujiwara no Mitsutaka, he studied poetry under Fujiwara no Shunzei and became one of the compilers of the Shinkokinshū. He later reached the Junior Second Rank and was called the Mibu Second Rank.
The foundation poem is Mibu no Tadamine's poem in Love Poems II of the Kokinshū, "When the wind blows, the white clouds part on the peak: is your heart so cold as to break off entirely?"

The first line, "kaze fukaba," is conditional: "if the wind blows." It recasts the foundation poem's "kaze fukeba," "when the wind blows," as a supposition.
The second line, "mine ni wakaremu," means "will part upon the peak," taking up the foundation poem's "mine ni wakaruru." The parting of clouds is overlaid on the lovers' parting.
In the third line, "kumo o dani," "dani" means "at least, even."
The fourth line, "arishi nagori no," means "of the remnants of what we once were."
The last line, "katami tomo miyo," is an imperative: "look on them as keepsakes." Where the foundation poem saw the other's coldness in the parting of clouds, here the speaker begs that even the parting clouds be seen as keepsakes, a lament at being forgotten.
Author: Fujiwara no Ietaka
Source: Shin Kokin Wakashu
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