Ima wa tote kimi ga karenaba waga yado no hana o ba hitori mite ya shinobamu - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

今はとて君がかれなば我が宿の
花をばひとり見てやしのばむ

Roma-ji: Ima wa tote kimi ga karenaba waga yado no hana o ba hitori mite ya shinobamu
English Translation: "It is over now,"
if you say, and drift away,
the flowers of my home
shall I gaze upon alone
and remember you by them?
Meaning: If you leave me, saying it is over now, shall I look alone at the flowers of my home and remember you?
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 800

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poem imagines that if the lover leaves, the speaker will gaze alone at the flowers they once watched together at home and remember him. Contrasting flowers that bloom unchanged with the speaker left alone, it anticipates the loneliness after parting. It echoes the contrast between unchanging nature and the changed human world in the opening poem, 747.

The first line, "thinking it is over now," is a word of parting, the same phrase as the first line of poem 782.
In the second line kare echoes both a person leaving and flowers withering, and naba is a perfective hypothetical: if you have gone.
The third line, "my home," names the place they shared.
In the fourth line o ba stresses the object, and hitori, "alone," shows the absence of the other.
In the last line ya is resolved by the attributive of mu, and shinobu means to remember with longing.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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