Wa ga yado ni sakari ni sakeru ume no hana chirubeku narinu mimu hito mo ga mo

我がやどに盛りに咲ける梅の花
散るべくなりぬ見む人もがも

Roma-ji: Wa ga yado ni sakari ni sakeru ume no hana chirubeku narinu mimu hito mo ga mo
English Translation: In my garden here
blooming at their very best,
the blossoms of plum
now are on the point of falling —
if only someone came to see
Meaning: The plum blossoms in my garden, which bloomed at their peak, are now about to fall. If only there were someone to see them.
Commentary: Book Five Miscellaneous Poems 851

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Four poems later composed in response to the plum poems"
With the plum in his garden now about to fall after its full bloom, the poet wishes someone would come to see it. Using the same last line as the preceding poem, he moves time on from peak to falling, deepening the loneliness of having no one to share it.
The headnote reads "Four poems later composed in response to the plum poems," and they were written after the Plum Blossom Banquet as a reply to its poems. No author is named, but they are generally attributed to Ōtomo no Tabito, the host of the banquet.
The poet, Ōtomo no Tabito, was the son of the Major Counselor Ōtomo no Yasumaro and the father of Ōtomo no Yakamochi. Late in the Jinki era he went down to Tsukushi as Governor-General of Dazaifu, returned to the capital in Tenpyō 2 as Major Counselor, and died the following year. Versed in Chinese letters and Daoist thought, he formed a literary circle at Dazaifu with Yamanoue no Okura and others, known as the Tsukushi poetic circle.

First line, "wa ga yado ni": his own garden.
Second line, "sakari ni sakeru": blooming at the height, taking up the preceding poem's "now at its peak."
Third line, "ume no hana": again at the center of the poem, as in the preceding one.
Fourth line, "chirubeku narinu": "now about to fall"; the poem breaks here. Time has moved from the peak of the preceding poem to the moment of falling.
Fifth line, "mimu hito mo ga mo": the same last line as the preceding poem, pairing the two and layering the loneliness of having no one to see.
Author: Ōtomo no Tabito (attributed)
Source: Manyoshu
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