Yamabuki no hana sakinikeri kawazu naku Ide no satobito ima ya towamashi - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

山吹の花咲きにけりかはづ鳴く
井手の里人今や問はまし

Roma-ji: Yamabuki no hana sakinikeri kawazu naku Ide no satobito ima ya towamashi
English Translation: The kerria flowers
have come into bloom at last:
should I now go call
on the villagers of Ide
where the river frogs sing?
Meaning: The kerria has burst into bloom. Shall I now go to visit the people of Ide village, where the river frogs are singing?
Commentary: Book Two Spring Poems II 112

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on kerria among the hundred poems in the reign of Emperor Horikawa"
Like the preceding poem, this was composed on "kerria" for the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequence. The kerria has bloomed, the poet says; perhaps now is the time to visit the people of Ide, where the river frogs sing. Picturing Ide, famed for kerria and frogs, he lightly expresses the urge to visit, drawn by news of the flowers.
The author, "Fujiwara no Mototoshi," was the son of Minister of the Right Fujiwara no Toshiie. He was ranked alongside Minamoto no Toshiyori in Emperor Horikawa's poetry circle and was the teacher of Fujiwara no Shunzei, compiler of the Senzai Wakashū. His official career was undistinguished, ending at Junior Fifth Rank, Upper Grade.
It draws on an anonymous poem in the Kokin Wakashū, "The kerria at Ide where the frogs sing has fallen; would that I had seen it at its height." Where that poem regretted missing the flowers at their peak, this one resolves to visit while they are in bloom.

First line, "yamabuki no": names the subject, the kerria.
Second line, "hana sakinikeri": "ni" is the continuative of the perfective "nu" and "keri" adds exclamation: "they have bloomed!" The poem pauses here.
Third line, "kawazu naku": modifies "Ide" in the fourth line, adding the voices of the frogs for which Ide was famed. "Ide no kawazu" in 113 and "naku kawazu kana" in 117 of this book likewise pair kerria with frogs.
Fourth line, "Ide no satobito": the people of Ide village, continuing the mention of Ide from the preceding poem, 111.
Fifth line, "ima ya towamashi": "ya" is interrogative and "mashi" expresses hesitant intention: "shall I visit them now?"
Author: Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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