Morotomo ni ware o mo gushite chirine hana ukiyo o itou kokoro aru mi zo

もろともに我をも具して散りね花
憂き世をいとふ心ある身ぞ

Roma-ji: Morotomo ni ware o mo gushite chirine hana ukiyo o itou kokoro aru mi zo
English Translation: Take me with you, too,
altogether, as you fall,
scatter, blossoms, now:
I too am one who bears
a heart weary of this world.
Meaning: Take me with you when you fall, O blossoms, for I too am one whose heart is weary of this sorrowful world.
Commentary: Spring Poems 118

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When composing many poems on falling blossoms"
The poet calls to the blossoms: if you must fall, take me with you, for I too am one whose heart is weary of this sorrowful world.
Following the preceding poem's image of the spring wind rescuing the blossoms from the sorrowful world, the poet, as one who also longs to leave it, wishes to scatter along with them. Sharing the word ukiyo with the preceding poem, he gives strong voice to his weariness of the world through the blossoms.

First line, “morotomo ni”: together.
Second line, “ware o mo gushite”: taking me along too.
Third line, “chirine hana”: ne is the imperative of the perfective nu, fall, O blossoms, with a break after the third line.
Fourth line, “ukiyo o itou”: weary of this sorrowful world, using the same ukiyo as the first line of the preceding poem.
Fifth line, “kokoro aru mi zo”: I am one with such a heart, the emphatic zo closing with the reason for wishing to fall with the flowers.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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