Sanokata wa mi ni narinishi o imasara ni harusame furite hana sakame ya mo

さのかたは実になりにしを今さらに
春雨降りて花咲かめやも

Roma-ji: Sanokata wa mi ni narinishi o imasara ni harusame furite hana sakame ya mo
English Translation: Sanokata tree
has already come to fruit;
now, at this late time,
though the rain of spring may fall,
will its flowers bloom again?
Meaning: The sanokata has already turned to fruit—so now, even if the spring rain falls, how could it bloom again?
Commentary: Book Ten Spring Love Poems 1929

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems in Dialogue"
Answering the preceding poem's wish that the plant at least bloom, this poem replies that since it has already turned to fruit, it will not bloom now, and it forms an exchange with 1928. Having turned to fruit is read either as having already been joined with someone else or as the season of love having passed, and the poem gently declines the other's wish.

The first line, "sanokata wa," is the same opening as the preceding poem, marking the correspondence of the exchange.
In the second line, "mi ni narinishi o," "ni" marks completion, "shi" is the attributive of the past "ki," and "o" is adversative. It answers "though it bear no fruit" of the preceding poem.
The third line, "imasara ni," means now at this point.
The fourth line, "the spring rain falls," brings in the rain that makes flowers bloom.
In the last line, "hana sakame ya mo," "me ya mo" is rhetorical: would it bloom? surely not. It closes by declining the preceding poem's plea to bloom at least.
Source: Manyoshu
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