Izuku nite kaze o mo yo o mo uramimashi Yoshino no oku mo hana wa chiru nari - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

いづくにて風をも世をも恨みまし
吉野の奥も花は散るなり

Roma-ji: Izuku nite kaze o mo yo o mo uramimashi Yoshino no oku mo hana wa chiru nari
English Translation: Where, then, should I go
to bear my grudge against the wind
and against the world?
Even deep in Yoshino,
they say, the blossoms fall
Meaning: Where then should I go to resent the wind, and the world as well? Even deep in the hills of Yoshino, they say, the blossoms fall.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1073

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on blossoms among the hundred-poem sequence the monk En'i urged me to compose"
This poem was composed as a poem on blossoms in a hundred-poem sequence that the monk En'i, Saigyō, urged him to compose. Where should I resent the wind and the world; even deep in Yoshino, they say, the blossoms fall, he says. One might think that by fleeing the sorrowful world into the depths of the mountains one would no longer have cause to resent it. Yet even deep in Yoshino, famous for its blossoms and a place of retreat, the wind scatters the flowers, so there is nowhere to escape resentment, and he entrusts to the falling blossoms the difficulty of truly fleeing the world. The sequence Saigyō urged is known as the Futamigaura Hundred of Bunji 2 (1186).
The author, "Fujiwara no Teika," was a son of Fujiwara no Shunzei. He later became one of the compilers of the Shin Kokin Wakashū and compiled the Shin Chokusen Wakashū.
It shares with 1151 of this book, which sings of a deer crying even deep in the mountains one enters to flee the world, the sense that even in the depths of the hills there is no refuge from the sorrows of the world.

First line, "izuku nite": "where," answering "mashi" in the third line.
Second line, "kaze o mo yo o mo": "both the wind that scatters the flowers and the sorrowful world," repeating "mo" to set the two side by side.
Third line, "uramimashi": "mashi," used with a question word, expresses hesitation, "where should I resent them?" The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "Yoshino no oku mo": "even deep in Yoshino," famous for blossoms and a place of retreat from the world. It shares the depths of the mountains with "yama no oku ni mo" in the fourth line of 1151 of this book.
Fifth line, "hana wa chiru nari": "nari" after the conclusive form is the auxiliary of hearsay, "the blossoms fall, they say."
Author: Fujiwara no Teika
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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