Ume no hana chirasu harusame itaku furu tabi ni ya kimi ga iori seruramu

梅の花散らす春雨いたく降る
旅にや君が廬りせるらむ

Roma-ji: Ume no hana chirasu harusame itaku furu tabi ni ya kimi ga iori seruramu
English Translation: Blossoms of the plum
scattered by the rain of spring
falling heavily—
on your journey, my dear one,
do you shelter in a hut?
Meaning: The spring rain that scatters the plum blossoms is falling hard. Are you, on your journey, staying somewhere in a makeshift hut?
Commentary: Book Ten Spring Love Poems 1918

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Love Expressed Through Rain"
In spring rain heavy enough to scatter the plum blossoms, this poem thinks of a beloved who must be lodging in a makeshift hut on a journey, and it closes the group on rain. Whereas the preceding three poems exchanged words over the spring rain as a pretext, this one sings of a heart anxious for a beloved traveling in the rain. The scene of falling plum makes the longing for the distant beloved all the more poignant.

The first line, "plum blossoms," names the flowers scattered by the spring rain.
The second line, "the spring rain that scatters them," takes up the rain that scatters blossoms in poems such as 1864.
The third line, "falls heavily," breaks the poem after the third line; "itaku" is the same word as in 1917.
In the fourth line, "tabi ni ya kimi ga," "ya" is an interrogative particle in kakari-musubi with "ramu" in the last line.
In the last line, "iori seruramu," "ioru" means to lodge in a temporary hut and "ramu" is present conjecture, closing with thoughts of the beloved far away on a journey.
Source: Manyoshu
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