Waga kazasu yanagi no ito o fukimidaru kaze ni ka imo ga ume no chiruramu

我がかざす柳の糸を吹き乱る
風にか妹が梅の散るらむ

Roma-ji: Waga kazasu yanagi no ito o fukimidaru kaze ni ka imo ga ume no chiruramu
English Translation: The willow's fine threads
twined as ornaments in my hair
the wind blows awry—
in that wind, at my love's house
are the plum blossoms falling?
Meaning: Is it in this wind, the one that tangles the willow threads I wear in my hair, that the plum blossoms at my beloved's house are scattering now?
Commentary: Book Ten Spring Miscellaneous Poems 1856

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Flowers"
Feeling the wind toss the willow sprigs he wears in his hair, the poet wonders whether that same wind is scattering the plum at his beloved's house. The poem moves from the wind close at hand to the lover's distant house, joining willow and plum, two emblems of spring, to himself and his beloved through the wind. It leaves the lingering echo of the willow group within the flower group.

The first line, "that I wear in my hair," uses "kazasu," to wear flowers or sprigs in the hair, a custom akin to "kazurakeru" in 1852.
The second line, "the willow's threads," likens the slender branches to thread, the same comparison as "the green willow's threads" in 1851.
The third line, "fukimidaru," means blows into disorder and modifies "wind" in the next line.
In the fourth line, "kaze ni ka imo ga," "ka" is an interrogative particle in kakari-musubi with "ramu" in the last line, and "imo" is a man's affectionate word for his beloved or wife.
In the last line, "ume no chiruramu," "ramu" is an auxiliary of present conjecture answering "ka," closing with thoughts of the plum at the beloved's unseen house.
Source: Manyoshu
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