Kaze ni chiru hanatachibana o sode ni ukete kimi ga miato to shinoitsuru ka mo

風に散る花橘を袖に受けて
君がみ跡と偲ひつるかも

Roma-ji: Kaze ni chiru hanatachibana o sode ni ukete kimi ga miato to shinoitsuru ka mo
English Translation: Scattered by the wind,
the blossoms of the orange
catching on my sleeve,
as if they were your footprints,
how I cherished them in thought!
Meaning: Catching on my sleeve the tachibana blossoms scattered by the wind, I cherished them as traces you had left behind.
Commentary: Book Ten Summer Miscellaneous Poems 1966

Headnote: "On Flowers"
This poem catches wind-scattered tachibana blossoms on the sleeve and cherishes them as traces of the beloved. The scent of tachibana was thought to recall people of the past, and the falling blossoms are overlaid with the image of a departed beloved. Its headnote is "On Flowers." At the head of the summer flower group stands the flowering tachibana, carried over from the hototogisu group.

The first line, "scattered by the wind," sets the scene.
The second line, "the flowering tachibana," names the representative summer flower.
The third line, "catching them on my sleeve," is hypermetric.
In the fourth line, "kimi ga miato to," "miato" means footprints or traces, receiving the flowers as what remains after the beloved has gone.
In the last line, "shinoitsuru ka mo," "tsuru" is the attributive of the completive "tsu" and "ka mo" is exclamatory.
Source: Manyoshu
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