Chitose made orite miru beki sakurabana kozue haruka ni sakisomenikeri - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

千歳まで折りて見るべき桜花
梢遥かに咲き初めにけり

Roma-ji: Chitose made orite miru beki sakurabana kozue haruka ni sakisomenikeri
English Translation: The cherry blossoms
we shall break and gaze upon
for a thousand years
high upon the distant boughs
have now begun to open
Meaning: The cherry blossoms that we are to break off and gaze upon for a thousand years have now begun to bloom, high up on the distant treetops.
Commentary: Book Ten Poems of Celebration 611

Headnote: "In the same reign, when the courtiers composed on the topic 'Blossoms Pledge ☆ Years' at the Empress's palace, he composed this"
Like the preceding poem, this comes from Emperor Horikawa's reign: when the courtiers composed on the topic "Blossoms pledge ☆ years" at the Empress's palace, the emperor himself composed this poem. The cherry blossoms that are to be broken off and admired for a thousand years, he says, have begun to bloom high on the distant boughs. Seeing in the first blossoms on the high branches the start of flowers to be enjoyed for a thousand years, he entrusts the endurance of the reign to them. The Empress is Princess Tokushi, Emperor Horikawa's consort. One character of the topic is shown in the text as "☆" and cannot be read, so it is given as it stands.
The author, "the Retired Emperor Horikawa," was the second son of Emperor Shirakawa and the seventy-third emperor. He loved poetry and music, and his reign saw a flourishing of poetry, including the presentation of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.
The preceding poem, 610, sees the beginning of a thousand ages in the year's young water, and this poem sees the beginning of a thousand years in the first cherry blossoms; both entrust endurance to things that mark a beginning.

First line, "chitose made": "for a thousand years."
Second line, "orite miru beki": "beki" is the attributive of "beshi," expressing what is fitting or possible, "which we may break off and gaze upon."
Third line, "sakurabana": taking up the second line, it becomes the subject of "sakisome" in the last line.
Fourth line, "kozue haruka ni": "far up in the treetops." The distant boughs suggest the distant thousand years to come.
Fifth line, "sakisomenikeri": "some" is the continuative of "somu," "to begin," "to begin to bloom." "Ni" is the continuative of the perfective "nu," and "keri" expresses realization, "they have begun to bloom."
Author: Retired Emperor Horikawa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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