Hakanasa o urami mo hateji sakurabana ukiyo wa tare mo kokoro naraneba - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

はかなさを恨みも果てじ桜花
憂き世は誰も心ならねば

Roma-ji: Hakanasa o urami mo hateji sakurabana ukiyo wa tare mo kokoro naraneba
English Translation: Your fleeting nature
I will not resent to the end,
O cherry blossoms;
in this sorrowful world, no one
lives as their heart would wish
Meaning: I will not wholly resent your fleeting nature, O cherry blossoms. In this sorrowful world, no one lives as their heart would wish.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1053

Headnote: "Composed on the theme of falling blossoms"
This poem was composed on the theme "falling blossoms." I will not resent your fleetingness to the end, O cherry blossoms, for in this sorrowful world no one lives as the heart would wish, he says. Holding back the urge to resent flowers that scatter so quickly, he reflects that since no one in this world can live as the heart desires, the blossoms too surely do not scatter by choice. Laying his own lot over the falling flowers, he quietly accepts the way of the world.
The author, "the Later Lay-Monk Prince of Ninnaji (Kakushō)," is Prince-Priest Kakushō. The fifth son of Emperor Toba, he took the tonsure, entered Ninnaji, and led the temple as its head.
Here a poem by a son of Emperor Toba, the author of the preceding poem, 1052, follows directly. Where the preceding poem calls on the flowers, "if you have a heart," this one speaks of a world in which "no one lives as the heart would wish," so the two form a pair around the "heart" of the blossoms.

First line, "hakanasa o": "your fleetingness," the way the blossoms scatter so swiftly.
Second line, "urami mo hateji": "hatsu" after a verb means to do something to the end, and "ji" is the auxiliary of negative intention, "I will not resent to the end." The poem pauses here.
Third line, "sakurabana": an address to the blossoms, placed in the third line as in the preceding poem, 1052.
Fourth line, "ukiyo wa tare mo": "in this sorrowful world, everyone."
Fifth line, "kokoro naraneba": "kokoro nari" means to be as one wishes, and "neba," the realis of the negative "zu" with "ba," gives the reason, "since no one is as the heart would wish." It shares "kokoro" with "kokoro araba" in the first line of the preceding poem, 1052.
Author: Prince-Priest Kakushō
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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