Asa madaki okite zo mitsuru ume no hana yo no ma no kaze no ushirometasa ni - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

朝まだき起きてぞ見つる梅の花
夜の間の風のうしろめたさに

Roma-ji: Asa madaki okite zo mitsuru ume no hana yo no ma no kaze no ushirometasa ni
English Translation: In the early dawn
I rose and went to look at
the plum blossoms there,
for I could not help but fret
about the wind in the night.
Meaning: I rose before dawn to look at the plum blossoms, uneasy about the wind that had blown in the night.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems 29

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Worried that the wind in the night might have scattered the plum blossoms, the poet rose early to look at them. The love of flowers is expressed through the concrete act of getting up at dawn.
The author, styled Prince Motoyoshi, Minister of War, was the eldest son of Emperor Yōzei and served as Minister of War. Known as a man of refined tastes, he left a personal collection, the Motoyoshi Shinnōshū.

First line, "asa madaki," means early in the morning before dawn has fully come.
Second line, "okite zo mitsuru," closes in the attributive "tsuru" in response to "zo," and the poem pauses after the second line.
Third line, "ume no hana," names what was seen and, by inversion, leads on to the reason given in the final line.
Fourth line, "yo no ma no kaze no," refers to the wind that blew in the night, leading the series of wind-and-plum poems that follows from the next poem.
Final line, "ushirometasa ni," means "out of anxiety," giving the reason for rising early by inversion.
Author: Prince Motoyoshi
Source: Shui Wakashu
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