Ume no hana ime ni kataraku miyabitaru hana to are omou sake ni ukabekoso

梅の花夢に語らくみやびたる
花と我れ思ふ酒に浮かべこそ

Roma-ji: Ume no hana ime ni kataraku miyabitaru hana to are omou sake ni ukabekoso
English Translation: The plum blossom
spoke to me within a dream:
"A flower of grace,
that is what I think I am;
float me, then, upon your wine"
Meaning: The plum blossom spoke to me in a dream: "I believe I am a flower of true refinement, so please float me in your wine."
Commentary: Book Five Miscellaneous Poems 852

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Four poems later composed in response to the plum poems"
The poet tells how a plum blossom appeared in a dream and said that, being a flower of refinement, it wished to be floated in wine. Personifying the plum and having it speak in a dream, he links the wine of the banquet with the elegance of the plum.
After the poem, a variant introduced as "one version says" gives the last lines as "do not let me scatter in vain; float me upon your wine." Here the main text is followed.
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, "ume no hana": set as the speaker who appears and talks in the dream.
Second line, "ime ni kataraku": "kataraku" means "what it said was," introducing the plum's words.
Third line, "miyabitaru": "refined, elegant," the plum's claim to its own distinction.
Fourth line, "hana to are omou": "I think myself such a flower."
Fifth line, "sake ni ukabekoso": "koso" expresses a wish: float me in wine. As if answering the banquet poem 840, which saw plum petals floating in a cup, it closes with the plum's own request.
Author: Ōtomo no Tabito (attributed)
Source: Manyoshu
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