Uchinabiku haru sarikurashi yama no ma no tōki konure no sakiyuku mireba

うち靡く春さり来らし山の際の
遠き木末の咲きゆく見れば

Roma-ji: Uchinabiku haru sarikurashi yama no ma no tōki konure no sakiyuku mireba
English Translation: Grasses bending soft,
spring has come round, so it seems,
for between the hills
on the tree-tops far away
I see the blossoms spreading.
Meaning: Spring, with its softly bending grasses, seems to have come round—for I see the distant treetops between the hills breaking one after another into bloom.
Commentary: Book Ten Spring Miscellaneous Poems 1865

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Flowers"
Seeing the far treetops between the hills come into bloom one after another, the poet knows that spring has arrived. By calling the spread of color over distant treetops "sakiyuku," blooming on and on, it expresses the movement of time as spring gradually spreads. Like "uchinabiku haru tachinurashi" in 1819, it begins with "uchinabiku," infers spring's arrival, and gives the evidence in the lower lines.

The first line, "uchinabiku," is a pillow word attached to "spring," the opening repeated throughout these groups.
In the second line, "haru sarikurashi," "rashi" marks grounded inference and the poem breaks here. By inversion the evidence is given at the end.
The third line, "between the mountains," shows the same mountain-gap scene as "lighting the mountain gaps" in 1864.
The fourth line, "of the distant treetops," catches the trees in the far distance, showing the breadth of spring.
In the last line, "sakiyuku mireba," "yuku" means progressing gradually and "ba" is an established condition. By inversion the grounds for the inference close the poem.
Source: Manyoshu
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