Hana no iro mo yado mo mukashi no sore nagara kawareru mono wa tsuyu ni zo arikeru - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

花の色も宿も昔のそれながら
変はれるものは露にぞありける

Roma-ji: Hana no iro mo yado mo mukashi no sore nagara kawareru mono wa tsuyu ni zo arikeru
English Translation: The flowers' color
and the house are as they were,
just the same as then;
the one thing that has changed
is the dew, I've come to find.
Meaning: The color of the flowers and the house are just as they were. The only thing that has changed, I find, is the dew, these tears.
Commentary: Book Twenty Lament Poems 1276

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the topic of seeing the blossoms at home at the height of the cherry season, in the spring of the year after losing his daughter, and putting a little of his feeling into words"
The poet says that the color of the blossoms and the house are as they were, and what has changed is only the dew, that is, the tears. It is composed on the same topic as the preceding poem, 1275. The flowers bloom as last year and the house is unchanged, yet because one person is missing, tears spill like dew on the blossoms, and it conveys the grief of absence standing out amid an unchanging scene.
Poems 1274 through 1277 form a sequence on the topic of the cherry blossoms in the spring after a daughter's death, Saneyori's own poem on losing his daughter being followed by poems by other poets on the same topic. The book of laments opens with cherry blossoms that call the dead to mind.
The author, Kiyohara no Motosuke, was the father of Sei Shōnagon and took part in compiling the Gosenshū as one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "hana no iro mo," means "the color of the blossoms too," sharing with the second line of the preceding poem, 1275, "iro nomi nokoru," the unchanged color of the flowers.
Second line, "yado mo mukashi no," means "the house too, of old."
Third line, "sore nagara," means "just as it was," with "nagara" expressing an unchanged state.
Fourth line, "kawareru mono wa," means "what has changed," with "ru" the attributive form of the auxiliary "ri" of continuing state.
Final line, "tsuyu ni zo arikeru," means "is the dew, I find," laying tears over the dew. The binding particle "zo" is resolved by "keru," the attributive form of the past auxiliary "keri."
Author: Kiyohara no Motosuke
Source: Shui Wakashu
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