Mine ni chiru hana wa tani naru ki ni zo saku itaku itowaji haru no yamakaze

峰に散る花は谷なる木にぞ咲く
いたくいとはじ春の山風

Roma-ji: Mine ni chiru hana wa tani naru ki ni zo saku itaku itowaji haru no yamakaze
English Translation: Blooms that fall on peaks
blossom on the trees below
in the valley there:
so I shall not much resent
the mountain wind of spring.
Meaning: The blossoms that fall on the peaks bloom again on the trees in the valley, so I will not resent too much the spring mountain wind.
Commentary: Spring Poems 155

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "When composing fifteen poems on cherry blossoms"
Petals that fall on the peaks are blown down by the mountain wind and settle on the trees in the valley, looking as though they had bloomed there again. So, the poet says, he will not resent too much the spring mountain wind that scatters them.
Seeing falling blossoms bloom anew in the valley softens his resentment of the wind. In 131 the poet resolved kaze o itowan, to hate the wind, but here he expresses the opposite feeling, itowaji, resolving not to hate it.

First line, “mine ni chiru”: falling on the peaks.
Second line, “hana wa tani naru”: the blossoms, in the valley, contrasting peak and valley.
Third line, “ki ni zo saku”: the emphatic zo forms a kakari-musubi with the attributive saku, with a break after the third line; petals settling on valley trees are seen as blooming.
Fourth line, “itaku itowaji”: ji expresses negative intention, I will not hate it much, the opposite of kaze o itowan in 131.
Fifth line, “haru no yamakaze”: closing on a noun, naming in inverted order what the poet resolves not to resent.
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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