Aboyama no sakura no hana wa kyō mo ka mo chirimagauramu miru hito nashi ni

阿保山の桜の花は今日もかも
散り乱ふらむ見る人なしに

Roma-ji: Aboyama no sakura no hana wa kyō mo ka mo chirimagauramu miru hito nashi ni
English Translation: On Mount Abo there,
the blossoms of the cherry,
today too, it may be,
scatter wildly, whirling down,
with no one there to see them.
Meaning: Are the cherry blossoms of Mount Abo scattering in wild confusion today as well, with no one there to see them?
Commentary: Book Ten Spring Miscellaneous Poems 1867

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Flowers"
This poem imagines the cherry blossoms of distant Mount Abo scattering in confusion again today, unseen by anyone. Picturing flowers not before the eyes and grieving over their falling, it also suggests the circumstances of a poet unable to visit the mountain. It shares the last line "with no one to see" with 1863, and the feeling of mourning unseen blossoms recurs in the flower group.

In the first line, "of Mount Abo," the mountain is thought to lie north of Nara, extending west of Mount Saho.
The second line, "the cherry blossoms," marks the theme, continuing the preceding poem's falling cherry.
In the third line, "kyō mo ka mo," "ka mo" is an interrogative particle in kakari-musubi with "ramu" in the last line, imagining the flowers falling today too, day after day.
In the fourth line, "chirimagauramu," "magau" means to whirl in confusion and "ramu" conjectures the present state of a place unseen.
The last line, "with no one to see them," is the same ending as 1863, placed last by inversion to show the loneliness of the flowers.
Source: Manyoshu
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