Yado mo yado hana mo mukashi ni nioedomo nushi naki iro wa sabishikarikeri - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

宿も宿花も昔に匂へども
主なき色は寂しかりけり

Roma-ji: Yado mo yado hana mo mukashi ni nioedomo nushi naki iro wa sabishikarikeri
English Translation: The house is the house,
and the blossoms as of old
glow in their beauty,
yet how lonely is the hue
of flowers without their master
Meaning: The dwelling is the same dwelling, and the blossoms glow as they did long ago, yet how lonely is their color now that their master is gone.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1054

Headnote: "Composed on seeing the blossoms of the Zenjōin at their height in the spring of the year after the Bishop Raijitsu had passed away"
This poem was composed in the spring of the year after the Bishop Raijitsu died, on seeing the blossoms of the Zenjōin at their height. The dwelling is the same and the flowers glow as of old, yet the color of the flowers without their master is lonely, he says. Visiting the Zenjōin connected with Raijitsu, he finds that the house and the flowers are unchanged and only the master who loved them is gone, and feels all the deeper a loneliness for that.
The author, "Archbishop Jinpan," was a son of the regent Fujiwara no Morozane. A monk of Kōfukuji, he served as its superintendent and rose to archbishop.
The idea of contrasting unchanging flowers with a person who is gone recalls Ki no Tsurayuki's poem in the laments of the Kokin Wakashū, "iro mo ka mo mukashi no kosa ni nioedomo uekemu hito no kage zo koishiki."

First line, "yado mo yado": "the dwelling is the same dwelling," repeating the word to stress how unchanged it is.
Second line, "hana mo mukashi ni": "the flowers too, as of old," repeating "mo" from the first line to set the dwelling and the flowers side by side.
Third line, "nioedomo": "though they glow in beauty," a concessive that leads into the lower verse.
Fourth line, "nushi naki iro wa": "nushi," the master, is the late Raijitsu, and "iro" is the color of the flowers. Where 1072 of this book makes the flowers the master of the hut, this poem sings of flowers that have lost their master, a contrast around flowers and their master.
Fifth line, "sabishikarikeri": "keri" is exclamatory, expressing a loneliness newly felt.
Author: Jinpan
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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