誰が園の梅の花ぞもひさかたの
清き月夜にここだ散りくる
清き月夜にここだ散りくる
- Roma-ji
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Taga sono no ume no hana zo mo hisakata no kiyoki tsukuyo ni kokoda chirikuru
- English Translation
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In whose garden grown
are these blossoms of the plum?
Far away the sky,
on this clear and moonlit night
how they come scattering down!
- Meaning
- Whose garden's plum blossoms are these, scattering down so thickly on this clear moonlit night?
- Commentary
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Book Ten Winter Miscellaneous Poems 2325
Headnote: "On Flowers"
This poem asks whose garden's plum blossoms are scattering down so thickly on a clear moonlit night, and its headnote is "On Flowers." The beauty of white petals dancing on a winter moonlit night is fancifully depicted with the moonlight. One can also read in it the device of seeing the falling things as actually snow, and as a plum poem placed after the snow group, it evokes the pairing of snow and plum.
The first line, "whose garden's," names the question.
In the second line, "ume no hana zo mo," "zo" and "mo" carry question and exclamation: are they plum blossoms? The poem breaks here.
The third line, "hisakata no," is a pillow word attached to "moon."
The fourth line, "on the clear moonlit night," names the time.
In the last line, "kokoda chirikuru," "kokoda" means so many.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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