Yorozuyo ni kawaranu hana no iro nareba izure no aki ka kimi ga mizaran - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

万代に変はらぬ花の色なれば
いづれの秋か君が見ざらん

Roma-ji: Yorozuyo ni kawaranu hana no iro nareba izure no aki ka kimi ga mizaran
English Translation: Since this is a hue
of flowers that will not change
for ten thousand years,
in what autumn could it be
that you would not gaze on them?
Meaning: Since the color of these flowers will not change for ten thousand ages, is there any autumn in which you would not see them?
Commentary: Book Five Celebration Poems 294

Headnote: "In the Tenryaku era, when a banquet among the garden plantings was held"
The poet says that since the color of these autumn flowers will not change for ten thousand ages, there can be no autumn in which the emperor does not see them. He celebrates the long reign of an emperor who will view the flowers every autumn. According to the headnote, it was composed in the Tenryaku era of Emperor Murakami, when a banquet among the garden plantings was held.
The author, called the Ono-no-miya Chancellor, is Fujiwara no Saneyori. The eldest son of Fujiwara no Tadahira, he rose to Regent and Chancellor and founded the Ono-no-miya line. His posthumous name was Lord Seishin.

First line, "yorozuyo ni," means "through ten thousand ages."
Second line, "kawaranu hana no," means "of flowers that do not change." Like "iro wa kawaraji" in 264 and "iro kaenu" in 275 of this book, it entrusts long life to unchanging color.
Third line, "iro nareba," means "since it is the color."
Fourth line, "izure no aki ka," means "in what autumn," with "ka" a rhetorical questioning particle.
Final line, "kimi ga mizaran," means "would you not see," a rhetorical question with "ka" resolved by the attributive "n."
Author: Fujiwara no Saneyori
Source: Shui Wakashu
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