Sazanami ya Nagara no yama no minetsuzuki misebaya hito ni hana no sakari o - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

さざなみや長等の山の峰続き
見せばや人に花の盛りを

Roma-ji: Sazanami ya Nagara no yama no minetsuzuki misebaya hito ni hana no sakari o
English Translation: Sazanami's
Mount Nagara with its peaks
running on and on:
how I wish I could show them
the blossoms at their height
Meaning: How I wish I could show others the blossoms at their height along the linked peaks of Mount Nagara by the rippling waters.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems I 75

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a poem on blossoms when I held a poetry contest"
Composed on "blossoms" for the same contest as the preceding poem, this one says that the poet longs to show others the full bloom of the cherries along the linked peaks of Mount Nagara in Ōmi. Emotion at cherries too splendid to enjoy alone is expressed as a wish to share them.
The author, "Fujiwara no Noritsuna," was a poet of the late Heian period.

First line, "sazanami ya": a pillow word introducing Shiga and other place names in Ōmi, the same first line as 66 and 67 in this book.
Second line, "Nagara no yama no": Mount Nagara is a poetic place in Ōmi, the mountain sung in 66 through the pivot "mukashi nagara."
Third line, "minetsuzuki": "a line of linked peaks."
Fourth line, "misebaya hito ni": "baya" expresses the speaker's own wish, "how I would like to show them," and the poem pauses here.
Fifth line, "hana no sakari o": the object of "mise" placed after it by inversion, revealing that what the poet wishes to show is the cherries in full bloom.
Author: Fujiwara no Noritsuna
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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