Omoiyaru kokoro ya hana ni yukazaran kasumi kometaru Miyoshino no yama

思ひやる心や花に行かざらん
霞こめたるみ吉野の山

Roma-ji: Omoiyaru kokoro ya hana ni yukazaran kasumi kometaru Miyoshino no yama
English Translation: Will my longing heart,
reaching out to them from far,
not attain the flowers,
wrapped in haze from all around,
the hills of fair Yoshino?
Meaning: Will my heart, reaching out from afar, fail to reach the blossoms, wrapped as they are in the haze over the hills of Yoshino?
Commentary: Spring Poems 63

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When composing many poems on cherry blossoms"
This poem reaches out in thought to the distant blossoms of Yoshino. Since the mountains of Yoshino lie wholly wrapped in haze, the poet wonders whether even his heart, longing for the flowers from afar, will be screened off by the haze and fail to reach them.
Against the joy of actually seeing the Yoshino blossoms in the preceding poem, this one portrays a heart thinking of them from far away. The last line Miyoshino no yama is the same as in 11; there only the haze told of spring in a snowbound Yoshino, while here the haze stands between the flowers and the heart that longs for them.

First line, “omoiyaru”: sending one's thoughts to something far away.
Second line, “kokoro ya hana ni”: the interrogative ya forms a kakari-musubi with n in the third line.
Third line, “yukazaran”: will it not arrive, with a break after the third line.
Fourth line, “kasumi kometaru”: wholly wrapped in haze, the reason the heart cannot reach.
Fifth line, “Miyoshino no yama”: closing on a noun, the same last line as 11, the hazy mountains of Yoshino.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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