Harusame no furaba noyama ni majirinamu ume no hanagasa ari to iu nari - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

春雨の降らば野山にまじりなむ
梅の花笠ありといふなり

Roma-ji: Harusame no furaba noyama ni majirinamu ume no hanagasa ari to iu nari
English Translation: If the spring rain
comes falling, into hills and fields
I shall wander deep,
for the flower hat of plum
is there, or so they say
Meaning: If the spring rain falls, I shall wander into the hills and fields, for they say there is such a thing as a hat of plum blossoms.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems I 32

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown."
Even if the spring rain falls, the poet will go into the hills and fields, since there is said to be a hat made of plum blossoms to wear. It is a playful poem drawing on the tradition of likening plum blossoms to a hat.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.
"Ume no hanagasa," the plum-blossom hat, appears in a sacred song in the Kokin Wakashū telling that the hat the warbler sews, twisting green willow into single threads, is a hat of plum blossoms.

The first line, "If the spring rain," names the fine rain of spring. Spring rain also appears in this book in 4 and 40.
The second line, "comes falling, into hills and fields," sets a condition: if the rain falls, then to the hills and fields.
In the third line, "namu" expresses firm intention: "I shall go in among them." The poem pauses here.
The fourth line, "the flower hat of plum," likens plum blossoms to a hat that keeps off the rain.
In the last line, "nari" marks hearsay: "so I have heard there is such a thing."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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