Anagachi ni niwa o sae haku arashi kana sa koso kokoro ni hana o makaseme

あながちに庭をさへ掃く嵐かな
さこそ心に花を任せめ

Roma-ji: Anagachi ni niwa o sae haku arashi kana sa koso kokoro ni hana o makaseme
English Translation: So forcefully it
sweeps the garden floor as well,
how the storm wind blows!
Granted, I might leave the blooms
to your will upon the bough.
Meaning: How forcefully the storm sweeps away even the blossoms on the garden floor! Granted, I might leave the flowers on the branches to your will, but not these.
Commentary: Spring Poems 129

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When composing many poems on falling blossoms"
The poet laments a storm that not only scatters the flowers from the branches but forcibly sweeps away even the petals strewn across the garden. Even if he must leave the blossoms on the boughs to the storm's will, he feels, it need not take those on the ground as well.
For one who grieves the blossoms, the fallen petals too are a comfort. Resentment at a storm that steals even this last trace is expressed through a concession.

First line, “anagachi ni”: forcibly, high-handedly.
Second line, “niwa o sae haku”: sae means even, adding the garden blossoms to those on the branches.
Third line, “arashi kana”: what a storm, with the exclamatory kana and a break after the third line.
Fourth line, “sa koso kokoro ni”: the emphatic koso forms a kakari-musubi with me in the fifth line; to that extent, to your heart.
Fifth line, “hana o makaseme”: I might well leave the blossoms to your will, a concession that carries resentment toward a storm that takes even the garden's flowers.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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