Kasumi tatsu nagaki haruhi o kazasere do iya natsukashiki ume no hana kamo

霞立つ長き春日をかざせれど
いやなつかしき梅の花かも

Roma-ji: Kasumi tatsu nagaki haruhi o kazasere do iya natsukashiki ume no hana kamo
English Translation: Through the long spring day
when the mists rise everywhere
I have worn them, yet
ever dearer to my heart
are these blossoms of the plum
Meaning: Though I have worn them in my hair all through the long, misty spring day, these plum blossoms only grow dearer to me.
Commentary: Book Five Miscellaneous Poems 846

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Thirty-two poems on plum blossoms, with preface"
The poet says that though he has worn them all through the long, misty spring day, the plum blossoms only grow dearer. As the last of the thirty-two banquet poems, it closes the sequence by praising a charm that never palls.
This is one of the thirty-two poems of the Plum Blossom Banquet, held on the thirteenth day of the first month of Tenpyō 2, when officials of Dazaifu and provincial governors of Kyushu gathered at the residence of the Governor-General Ōtomo no Tabito and composed poems on the plum trees in his garden. The Chinese preface describes how, in the auspicious first month of early spring, the air was fine and the breeze gentle, the plums opened white like face powder before a mirror, and the orchids gave off a scent like a perfume sachet; it is also famous as the source of the era name Reiwa. The preface closes by proposing that, just as Chinese poetry has its pieces on falling plum blossoms, the company should compose short poems on the garden plums. The poem is signed "Ono-shi Tamori," the given name written phonetically with Chinese characters.
The poet, Ono no Tamori, was an official of the Ono clan who later served as ambassador to Silla and envoy to Parhae.

First line, "kasumi tatsu": "where mists rise," used as a pillow word for the spring day.
Second line, "nagaki haruhi o": "through the long spring day."
Third line, "kazasere do": "though I wear them," turning with an adversative.
Fourth line, "iya natsukashiki": "natsukashi" means dear and hard to part from, intensified by "iya"; the same pattern as 828's "iya mezurashiki."
Fifth line, "ume no hana kamo": the same last line as 828 and 844, closing the thirty-two poems in praise of the plum.
Author: Ono no Tamori
Source: Manyoshu
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