Hanazakari kozue o sasou kaze nakute nodoka ni chirasu haru ni awabaya

花盛り梢を誘ふ風なくて
のどかに散らす春にあはばや

Roma-ji: Hanazakari kozue o sasou kaze nakute nodoka ni chirasu haru ni awabaya
English Translation: With the blooms at full,
and no wind to lure them off
from the topmost boughs,
would I might meet a spring that
lets them scatter peacefully.
Meaning: I wish I might meet a spring when, with the blossoms at their height and no wind to lure them from the boughs, they scatter in peace.
Commentary: Spring Poems 135

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When composing many poems on falling blossoms"
The poet wishes he might meet a spring when no wind lures the blossoms from the treetops at their height, and the flowers simply fall in peace, of their own accord.
As the close of the thirty poems on falling blossoms, it gathers the sequence's grief over flowers scattered by the wind and its resentment of the wind into a final wish for a spring when blossoms fall gently. The second line kozue o sasou takes up kaze sasou, the first line of the preceding poem.

First line, “hanazakari”: the blossoms in full bloom.
Second line, “kozue o sasou”: luring the blossoms from the boughs, using sasou as in the first line of the preceding poem.
Third line, “kaze nakute”: with no such wind.
Fourth line, “nodoka ni chirasu”: letting the blossoms fall gently and calmly.
Fifth line, “haru ni awabaya”: baya expresses the speaker's wish, I would meet such a spring, closing the poem.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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