Saki sakazu ware ni na tsuge so sakurabana hitozute ni ya wa kikan to omoishi - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

咲き咲かず我になつげそ桜花
人づてにやは聞かんと思ひし

Roma-ji: Saki sakazu ware ni na tsuge so sakurabana hitozute ni ya wa kikan to omoishi
English Translation: Bloomed or not in bloom,
do not tell me of them, please,
those cherry blossoms;
did I ever think that I
would hear of them through others?
Meaning: Whether they have bloomed or not, do not tell me of those cherry blossoms. Did I ever think I would hear of them only from others?
Commentary: Book Two Spring Poems II 61

Headnote: "When Lord Nobumitsu spoke of how lovely the cherries at the Suzaku-in were, recalling the past, when she might have had a way to see them."
Told how splendid the cherries of the Suzaku-in were, the poet laments that the blossoms she once could see for herself she can now know only by hearsay. In asking not to be told whether they have bloomed lies both nostalgia for the past and the loneliness of what can no longer be.
According to the headnote, when Minamoto no Nobumitsu spoke of the beauty of the Suzaku-in cherries, she recalled the past, thinking that once she would have had a way to see them, and composed this. Nobumitsu was a son of Prince Yoakira who served close to the Suzaku-in.
There is no settled view as to whom "the Taishō Miyasudokoro" refers. Miyasudokoro was a title for a consort such as a nyōgo or kōi who attended an emperor or crown prince, and "Taishō," Major Captain, seems to derive from the post of her father or a relative.

The first line, "Saki sakazu," means "whether they bloomed or not," showing that she wants to hear neither news.
In the second line, "na ... so" expresses prohibition: "do not tell me." The poem pauses here.
The third line, "sakurabana," names the Suzaku-in cherries Nobumitsu spoke of.
In the fourth line, "ya wa" is rhetorical: "would I hear of them through others? I never thought so." Whereas the "kotozute" in 57 of this book is word entrusted to the wind, this poem refuses word passed on by others.
In the last line, "n" is the attributive answering "ya wa" in a kakarimusubi pattern. "Shi" is the attributive of the past auxiliary "ki," and ending on it leaves a lingering echo as she looks back on the days when she saw the cherries herself.
Author: Taishō no Miyasudokoro
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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