Waga kokoro ayashiku ada ni haru kureba hana ni tsuku mi to nadote nariken - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

我が心あやしくあだに春来れば
花につくみとなどてなりけん

Roma-ji: Waga kokoro ayashiku ada ni haru kureba hana ni tsuku mi to nadote nariken
English Translation: This heart of mine—
strangely flighty it becomes
when the spring arrives;
why have I turned into one
who clings so to the flowers?
Meaning: My heart grows strangely fickle when spring comes; why have I become one who so clings to the flowers?
Commentary: Book Seven Names of Things 404

Headnote: "Tsugumi (thrush)"
The poet wonders why his heart grows strangely fickle when spring comes, so that he becomes one who clings to the flowers. Within this puzzlement at his own heart stolen by flowers, the name of the thrush given in the headnote is hidden in the run of sounds "hana ni tsuku mi" in the fourth line. The headnote names the thing hidden in the poem.
Ōtomo no Kuronushi was an early Heian poet said to have come from a powerful family of Shiga District in Ōmi, and he is counted among the Six Poetic Immortals.

First line, "waga kokoro," means "my heart."
Second line, "ayashiku ada ni," means "strangely fickle." It shares the word "ayashiku" with 403, the preceding poem.
Third line, "haru kureba," means "when spring comes," the perfective form with "ba."
Fourth line, "hana ni tsuku mi to," means "one who clings to the flowers," hiding the name "tsugumi" in "tsuku mi." The next poem, 405, is on the same topic, so two poems on the thrush stand together.
Final line, "nadote nariken," means "why have I become so," with "ken" an auxiliary of past conjecture.
Author: Ōtomo no Kuronushi
Source: Shui Wakashu
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