Haru wa nao ware nite shirinu hanazakari kokoro nodokeki hito wa araji na - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

春はなほ我にて知りぬ花盛り
心のどけき人はあらじな

Roma-ji: Haru wa nao ware nite shirinu hanazakari kokoro nodokeki hito wa araji na
English Translation: Spring, as I have learned
from my own heart, is like this:
in the season of bloom
there can be no one at all
whose heart is calm and at ease.
Meaning: I have learned from my own heart what spring is like: when the blossoms are at their height, surely no one's heart is at peace.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems 43

Headnote: "For the poetry contest at the house of Taira no Sadafumi"
Having learned first from his own heart that in the season of full bloom one cannot be at peace for worrying that the flowers will fall, the poet surmises that no one could be calm of heart at such a time. He widens his thought from his own experience to people in general. According to the headnote, the poem was submitted to the poetry contest at the house of Taira no Sadafumi.
The author, written as Tadamine, is Mibu no Tadamine. One of the compilers of the Kokinshū, he is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets and was the father of Mibu no Tadami.

First line, "haru wa nao," means "spring, after all."
Second line, "ware nite shirinu," means "I have learned it from myself," and the poem pauses after the second line.
Third line, "hanazakari," marks the time of full bloom, placing the same word in the third line as the preceding poem.
Fourth line, "kokoro nodokeki," means calm and at ease of heart. Following the inexhaustible flowers of the preceding poem, it sings of the agitation of the heart in full bloom.
Final line, "hito wa araji na," with "ji" for negative conjecture and "na" for exclamation.
Author: Mibu no Tadamine
Source: Shui Wakashu
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