Waga yado ni sakeru sakura no hanazakari chitose miru tomo akaji to zo omou - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

我が宿に咲ける桜の花盛り
千年見るとも飽かじとぞ思ふ

Roma-ji: Waga yado ni sakeru sakura no hanazakari chitose miru tomo akaji to zo omou
English Translation: Within my garden
the cherry trees in blossom
are at their fullest;
though I gaze a thousand years,
I think I shall never tire.
Meaning: The cherry blossoms in full bloom at my house—even if I gazed at them for a thousand years, I think I would never tire of them.
Commentary: Book Five Celebration Poems 279

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "For a folding screen at the celebration of Lord Seishin's fiftieth birthday"
The poet says that even after gazing for a thousand years at the cherry blossoms in full bloom at his house, he would never tire of them. In the image of viewing the blossoms for a thousand years he embeds a blessing on the long life of the master who will see them. According to the headnote, like the preceding poem it was written for a folding screen at the celebration of Fujiwara no Saneyori's fiftieth birthday.
The author, written as Kanemori, is Taira no Kanemori. Of a Taira line descended from Emperor Kōkō, he was a poet of the mid-Heian period. He is known for his performance at the palace poetry contest of the fourth year of Tentoku and is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "waga yado ni," means "at my house," referring to the residence of Saneyori, owner of the screen.
Second line, "sakeru sakura no," means "of the blooming cherry," with "ru" an auxiliary of continuing state.
Third line, "hanazakari," is the height of the blossoms, and the poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "chitose miru tomo," means "even if I gaze a thousand years."
Final line, "akaji to zo omou," means "I think I would not tire," with "zo" resolved by the attributive "omou." 287 in this book asks rhetorically when one could ever tire of the blossoms even after a thousand springs, singing likewise of a heart that never wearies.
Author: Taira no Kanemori
Source: Shui Wakashu
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