Fuku kaze ya haru tachi kinu to tsugetsuran eda ni komoreru hana saki ni keri - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

吹く風や春立ち来ぬと告げつらん
枝にこもれる花咲きにけり

Roma-ji: Fuku kaze ya haru tachi kinu to tsugetsuran eda ni komoreru hana saki ni keri
English Translation: Has the blowing wind
brought word that spring has risen
and has come at last?
The flowers hidden in the boughs
have now burst into bloom
Meaning: Has the blowing wind announced that spring has come? The flowers that lay hidden within the branches have blossomed.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems I 12

Headnote: "A poem from the Poetry Contest at the Empress's Palace in the Kanpyō era."
Seeing blossoms that had been hidden within the branches open, the poet surmises that the blowing wind must have announced spring's arrival. The conceit makes the invisible wind a messenger of spring, with the flowers blooming in response.
According to the headnote, it was composed for the poetry contest at the Empress's palace held in the Kanpyō era, in the reign of Emperor Uda. The Empress here is Princess Hanshi, Emperor Uda's mother.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

In the first line, "Fuku kaze ya," "ya" is an interrogative particle corresponding to "ran" in the third line. As with the "spring wind" of the preceding poem, 11, the wind is pictured as bringing spring.
The second line, "that spring has risen and come," tells of spring's arrival.
In the third line, "tsuran" joins the perfective "tsu" to the conjectural "ran," wondering whether the wind has announced it. The poem pauses here.
The fourth line, "hidden in the boughs," shows buds still concealed within the branches.
In the last line, "keri" is exclamatory, expressing surprise at noticing that the flowers have bloomed.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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