Hana mo mina chirinuru yado wa yuku haru no furusato to koso narinu beranare - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

花もみな散りぬる宿は行く春の
故里とこそなりぬべらなれ

Roma-ji: Hana mo mina chirinuru yado wa yuku haru no furusato to koso narinu beranare
English Translation: The house where the flowers
have every one now fallen,
of departing spring
it seems that it is to become
the old home left behind.
Meaning: A house where every flower has fallen seems bound to become the old home that departing spring leaves behind.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems 77

Headnote: "For the monthly folding screens in the same reign"
A house where all the flowers have fallen, the poet says, seems about to become the old home of departed spring. Treating the house after spring's departure as a dwelling where spring once lived, the poem personifies the season. According to the headnote, it accompanied the screens of the months made in the Engi era of Emperor Daigo.
The author, written as Tsurayuki, is Ki no Tsurayuki. He was the leading compiler of the Kokinshū and wrote its kana preface. Known also as the author of the Tosa Diary, he is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "hana mo mina," means "the flowers, all of them."
Second line, "chirinuru yado wa," means "the house where they have fallen."
Third line, "yuku haru no," means "of departing spring," personifying the season.
Fourth line, "furusato to koso," sets the particle "koso," resolved by the perfective "beranare" in the final line. Where poem 49 of this book sang of a village where people once lived, and poem 55 of the geese's homeland, this poem sings of spring's old home.
Final line, "narinu beranare," with the conjectural auxiliary "beranari," means "it seems it will become."
Author: Ki no Tsurayuki
Source: Shui Wakashu
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