Ikemizu no migiwa narazu wa sakurabana kage o mo nami ni oraremashi ya wa - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

池水の汀ならずは桜花
影をも波に折られましやは

Roma-ji: Ikemizu no migiwa narazu wa sakurabana kage o mo nami ni oraremashi ya wa
English Translation: Were it not standing
at the water's very edge,
the cherry blossom,
would even its reflection
be broken by the waves?
Meaning: If the cherry did not stand at the very edge of the pond, would even its reflection be broken by the ripples?
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems 28

A cherry by the pond casts its image on the water, and the image, rocked by ripples, seems to break. The poet laments the lot of a waterside cherry, whose very reflection, not only its branches, is broken by the waves.
The author is said to be Minamoto no Morokata.

The first line, "of the pond," sets the scene of a cherry by the water.
The second line, "were it not at the water's edge," uses "zu wa" for the hypothesis.
The third line, "the cherry blossom," is here the cherry that casts its image on the water.
In the fourth line, "kage" is the reflection, and "mo" adds even the reflection, not only the branches.
The last line, "would it be broken," combines the counterfactual "mashi" with the rhetorical "ya wa": it would not have been broken.
Source: Shika Wakashu
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