Unohana no chiramaku oshimi hototogisu no ni ide yama ni iri kinaki toyomosu

卯の花の散らまく惜しみ霍公鳥
野に出で山に入り来鳴き響もす

Roma-ji: Unohana no chiramaku oshimi hototogisu no ni ide yama ni iri kinaki toyomosu
English Translation: Deutzia flowers,
sad that they must scatter so,
hototogisu
out to fields and into hills
comes and sings and makes it ring.
Meaning: Grieving that the deutzia blossoms must scatter, the hototogisu goes out to the fields and into the hills, coming to sing and fill the air with its song.
Commentary: Book Ten Summer Miscellaneous Poems 1957

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Birds"
This poem sings of the hototogisu going out to the fields and into the hills, filling the air with song as it grieves that the deutzia must fall. In the restless movement of the bird between fields and hills, it reads a heart aching over the flowers. It shares its motif with 1944, "grieving that the wisteria must scatter, the hototogisu," replacing wisteria with deutzia to sing of the bird that mourns flowers.

The first line, "of the deutzia," names the white flower of early summer.
The second line, "grieving that they must scatter," is the same as in 1944.
The third line, "hototogisu," is the subject, personified as a bird that grieves for flowers.
The fourth line, "going out to fields and into hills," is hypermetric, showing the bird busily going back and forth.
The last line, "comes and sings and makes it ring," closes by entrusting the grief to the voice.
Source: Manyoshu
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