Morohito no hana saku haru o yoso ni mite nao shigururu wa shiishiba no sode - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

諸人の花咲く春をよそに見て
なほしぐるるはしひ柴の袖

Roma-ji: Morohito no hana saku haru o yoso ni mite nao shigururu wa shiishiba no sode
English Translation: All the others greet
a spring of blossoming flowers
as I watch from afar;
what still drips as if with drizzle
is my sleeve of mourning gray
Meaning: Watching from afar as all the others greet a spring of blossoms, it is my sleeve, dyed the dark gray of mourning, that is still wet with drizzling tears.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1116

Headnote: "Composed on hearing that my colleagues had been raised in rank, in the spring of the year after I went into deep mourning in the tenth month"
In the spring of the year after he went into deep mourning for a parent in the tenth month, he heard that his colleagues had been raised in rank and composed this poem. Watching others greet a spring of blossoms, what still drips with drizzle is my sleeve of mourning gray, he says. While in mourning he could not share in promotions and could only watch from afar as his colleagues rose and flourished like spring flowers. From the season of winter drizzle in the tenth month when his mourning began, his mourning sleeve is still wet with tears in spring, and he lays over it both his sorrow and his grief at being left behind.
The author, "Middle Counselor Nagakata," is Fujiwara no Nagakata. A son of Fujiwara no Akinaga, he rose to provisional middle counselor. He was a nephew of Fujiwara no Shunzei.
It shares with "sumizome no sode" in the fifth lines of 1136 and 1137 of this book the entrusting of one's situation to the color of a sleeve. And just as 1076 of this book likened promotion to waiting for flowers, this poem likens the promotion of others to a spring of blossoms.

First line, "morohito no": "of all the people," meaning his colleagues who were promoted.
Second line, "hana saku haru o": likening the promotion of others to a spring when flowers bloom. It shares the likening of promotion to flowers with "hana o matsu koso" in the second line of 1076 of this book.
Third line, "yoso ni mite": "watching from afar," as something that has nothing to do with him.
Fourth line, "nao shigururu wa": "shiguru" means for winter drizzle to fall, a figure for shedding tears, carrying the sense "still, even in spring," since the season of drizzle in the tenth month when his mourning began.
Fifth line, "shiishiba no sode": a mourning sleeve of the dull gray as if dyed with oak twigs, ending on a noun. It shares the color of the sleeve with "sumizome no sode" in the fifth lines of 1136 and 1137 of this book.
Author: Fujiwara no Nagakata
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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