Kaze sasou hana no yukue wa shiranedomo oshimu kokoro wa mi ni tomarikeri

風誘ふ花の行方は知らねども
惜しむ心は身にとまりけり

Roma-ji: Kaze sasou hana no yukue wa shiranedomo oshimu kokoro wa mi ni tomarikeri
English Translation: Where the blossoms go,
lured off by the wind, alas,
I cannot tell, and yet
the heart that grieves for them
remains within me still.
Meaning: I do not know where the blossoms have gone, lured away by the wind, but the heart that grieves for them stays on within me.
Commentary: Spring Poems 134

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When composing many poems on falling blossoms"
The poet does not know where the blossoms lured away by the wind have gone, but the heart that grieves for them remains within him.
Contrasting the departing flowers with the grief that stays behind, he quietly contemplates the loneliness after the blossoms have gone. In 67 the poet asked whether his heart, lured out of his body by the blossoms, would return once they had fallen; in this poem the grieving heart stays within him.

First line, “kaze sasou”: the wind luring them off.
Second line, “hana no yukue wa”: where the fallen blossoms have gone.
Third line, “shiranedomo”: though I do not know, continuing adversatively.
Fourth line, “oshimu kokoro wa”: the heart that grieves for them, contrasted with the blossoms' fate in the second line.
Fifth line, “mi ni tomarikeri”: it remains within me, closing with keri of realization.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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