かたばかりつぼむと花を思ふより
そそまた心ものになるらん
そそまた心ものになるらん
- Roma-ji
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Katabakari tsubomu to hana o omou yori soso mata kokoro mono ni naruran
- English Translation
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From the very moment
that I think the blossoms bud,
barely, just a trace,
once again my heart, it seems,
is wholly given up to them.
- Meaning
- From the moment I think the blossoms have barely begun to bud, my heart, it seems, is already wholly taken up with them.
- Commentary
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Spring Poems 145
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When composing fifteen poems on cherry blossoms"
From the moment the poet thinks the blossoms have formed the faintest buds, his heart, he says, must already be taken up by them and unable to settle.
He looks at a heart captured by the blossoms even at the bud stage, before they bloom. Following the preceding poem, in which he came too early to find any sign of flowers, this one shows his heart stirred by the slightest buds, carrying forward the waiting heart of the sequence. The fourth line soso mata appears as sora mata in another manuscript.
First line, “katabakari”: just barely, in form only.
Second line, “tsubomu to hana o”: that the blossoms have budded.
Third line, “omou yori”: from the moment I think so.
Fourth line, “soso mata kokoro”: once again the heart, a restless stirring.
Fifth line, “mono ni naruran”: it must be wholly taken up with the blossoms, closing with the conjectural ran.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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