Tada naranu hanatachibana no nioi kana yosouru sode wa tare to nakeredo - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

ただならぬ花橘のにほひかな
よそふる袖は誰となけれど

Roma-ji: Tada naranu hanatachibana no nioi kana yosouru sode wa tare to nakeredo
English Translation: How uncommon is
the fragrance of these flowers
of the orange tree,
though the sleeves they bring to mind
belong to no one I can name
Meaning: How uncommon is the fragrance of the orange blossoms, though there is no one in particular whose sleeves it calls to mind.
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 171

Headnote: "Composed on orange blossoms for the poetry contest of the First-Rank Princess in the Fifth Month of the second year of Chōkyū, in the reign of Emperor Go-Suzaku"
Composed on "orange blossoms" for a poetry contest held by the First-Rank Princess in the Fifth Month of 1041, in the reign of Emperor Go-Suzaku. The fragrance of the orange blossoms is no ordinary thing, the poet says; though there is no one in particular whose sleeves its scent recalls, her heart is stirred. Building on the tradition that the scent of orange blossoms recalls someone from the past, she says her heart is moved even without anyone to remember, stressing the power of the fragrance itself. Poems on orange blossoms begin here.
The author, "Gosechi of the Biwa Palace Empress Dowager's Household," was a lady-in-waiting who served Fujiwara no Kenshi, consort of Emperor Sanjō, known as the Biwa Palace Empress Dowager. Little else is known of her life.
Ever since the anonymous Kokin Wakashū poem, "When I breathe the scent of orange blossoms awaiting the Fifth Month, I smell the sleeves of one I knew long ago," the fragrance of orange blossoms has been sung as recalling the scented sleeves of someone from the past.
This poem and the five that follow, through 176, form a sequence on orange blossoms.

First line, "tada naranu": "no ordinary thing."
Second line, "hanatachibana no": the flowers of the tachibana orange, which bloom white and fragrant in early summer.
Third line, "nioi kana": "nioi" is fragrance and "kana" exclamatory. The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "yosouru sode wa": "yosou" means to liken, here likening the scent to the fragrant sleeves of someone from the past, drawing on "mukashi no hito no sode no ka zo suru" in the Kokin Wakashū.
Fifth line, "tare to nakeredo": "though it is no one in particular," showing a heart moved by the scent with no particular person to remember. The next poem, 172, also joins the orange scent with sleeves.
Author: Gosechi
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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