Miyoshino no yamashitakaze ya harauramu kozue ni kaeru hana no shirayuki - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

み吉野の山下風や払ふらむ
梢にかへる花の白雪

Roma-ji: Miyoshino no yamashitakaze ya harauramu kozue ni kaeru hana no shirayuki
English Translation: Can it be the wind
blowing at the foot of fair
Yoshino's mountain
sweeping up the white snowflakes
of blossoms back to the boughs?
Meaning: Is the wind blowing beneath the mountains of Yoshino sweeping them up? The white snow of blossoms drifts back up to the treetops.
Commentary: Book Two Spring Poems II 93

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on blossoms"
Composed on the topic of "blossoms." The poet wonders whether the wind blowing at the foot of Mount Yoshino is sweeping up the petals scattered on the ground, for the snow-white blossoms are drifting back up to the treetops. Capturing the moment when fallen flowers seem to return to the branches, and guessing that the mountain wind is the cause, the poem portrays falling blossoms in a dreamlike way.
The author, "Priest Shun'e," is Shun'e, son of Minamoto no Toshiyori, who became a monk of Tōdaiji. He named his cell at Shirakawa in the capital the Karin'en, gathering many poets there, and is also known as the teacher of Kamo no Chōmei. A poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
This poem and the four that follow, through 97, all share the headnote "Composed as a poem on blossoms."

First line, "Miyoshino no": "mi" is an honorific prefix, and Yoshino is famed for its cherries. Following 80 of this book, it depicts falling blossoms at Yoshino.
Second line, "yamashitakaze ya": "yamashitakaze" is the wind blowing at the foot of a mountain or down from it. The interrogative "ya" links with "ramu" in the third line.
Third line, "harauramu": "ramu" is the attributive of present conjecture, closing the construction with "ya" and guessing at the cause of the scene before the eyes. The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "kozue ni kaeru": the fallen blossoms swirl back to the branch tips. Contrary to the saying that blossoms return to the roots, here they return to the treetops. Poem 122 of this book, "hana wa ne ni," says that fallen blossoms return to the roots.
Fifth line, "hana no shirayuki": ends on a noun, likening falling blossoms to white snow, as "fumoto no yuki" in 79 of this book also does.
Author: Shun'e
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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