Yoshinoyama yagate ideji to omou mi o hana chirinaba to hito ya matsuran

吉野山やがて出でじと思ふ身を
花散りなばと人や待つらん

Roma-ji: Yoshinoyama yagate ideji to omou mi o hana chirinaba to hito ya matsuran
English Translation: On Mount Yoshino,
I would stay and never leave,
and yet, do they wait,
thinking that when the blossoms fall
I will come back home again?
Meaning: I mean never to leave Mount Yoshino once I am there, yet do the people in the capital wait for me, thinking I will return once the blossoms fall?
Commentary: Miscellaneous Poems 1036

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
I mean never to leave Mount Yoshino once I am there, yet do people wait for me, thinking I will return when the blossoms fall? the poet asks, setting his resolve to hide in Yoshino of the blossoms and never return to the world against those who wait, unaware of it.
The poem is included among the miscellaneous poems of the Shinkokinshū.

First line, “Yoshinoyama”: the famed cherry mountain in Yamato, also a place of withdrawal from the world.
Second line, “yagate ideji to”: yagate is just so, ever after; ji is negative intention.
Third line, “omou mi o”: this self who thinks so.
Fourth line, “hana chirinaba to”: thinking I will come back when the blossoms fall.
Fifth line, “hito ya matsuran”: ya is answered by ran; do they wait?
Author: Saigyō
Source: Sankashu
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