Haru fukami eda mo yurugade chiru hana wa kaze no toga ni wa aranu naru beshi

春深み枝も揺るがで散る花は
風の咎にはあらぬなるべし

Roma-ji: Haru fukami eda mo yurugade chiru hana wa kaze no toga ni wa aranu naru beshi
English Translation: Spring has grown so deep,
though the branches do not stir,
still the blossoms fall:
it cannot be, after all,
the wind that is to blame.
Meaning: Spring has grown deep, and the blossoms fall though the branches do not stir; surely, then, it is not the wind that is to blame.
Commentary: Spring Poems 128

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When composing many poems on falling blossoms"
Spring has deepened, and even with no wind and the branches still, the blossoms fall. The poet concludes that this is not the wind's fault but simply that their time has come.
Reconsidering the habit of blaming the wind for falling flowers, he accepts that blossoms fall with the turning of the seasons. The word toga also appears in 87, where drawing crowds was called the cherry's fault; here the poet declares the wind not at fault.

First line, “haru fukami”: since spring has grown deep; mi expresses cause.
Second line, “eda mo yurugade”: with the branches not stirring, showing there is no wind.
Third line, “chiru hana wa”: the blossoms that fall even so.
Fourth line, “kaze no toga ni wa”: as the wind's fault.
Fifth line, “aranu naru beshi”: it must not be, closing with the conjectural beshi as the poet attributes the fall to the deepening season.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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