Kite mibeki hito mo aranaku ni wagie naru ume no hatsuhana chirinu tomo yoshi

来て見べき人もあらなくに我家なる
梅の初花散りぬともよし

Roma-ji: Kite mibeki hito mo aranaku ni wagie naru ume no hatsuhana chirinu tomo yoshi
English Translation: No one's here to come
and to look at them with me,
at my home, these first
blossoms of the plum in bloom—
let them scatter, if they will.
Meaning: Since there is no one to come and see them, let the first plum blossoms at my home scatter if they will.
Commentary: Book Ten Winter Miscellaneous Poems 2328

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Flowers"
This poem says, almost carelessly, that since there is no one to come and see them, the first plum blossoms at home may as well scatter. The loneliness of feeling that even lovely first blossoms mean nothing without someone to show them to shows all the more strongly. It is the opposite of 1906 in the spring love poems, which would not let the plum fall until the people of Nara came, singing instead of the loneliness of having no one to see.

The first line, "who should come and see," names the missing visitor.
In the second line, "hito mo aranaku ni," "naku ni" is a nominalized negative with "ni": since there is no one.
The third line, "at my home," names the place.
The fourth line, "the first plum blossoms," names the year's first flowers.
In the last line, "chirinu tomo yoshi," "tomo" marks a concessive supposition: it is fine even if they fall.
Source: Manyoshu
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