春ごとに見る花なれど今年より
咲き始めたる心地こそすれ
咲き始めたる心地こそすれ
- Roma-ji
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Harugoto ni miru hana naredo kotoshi yori sakihajimetaru kokochi koso sure
- English Translation
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Each and every spring
they are flowers that I see, and yet
it seems this year
they have only just begun
to bloom for the first time.
- Meaning
- These are flowers I see every spring, and yet I feel as though they had begun to bloom for the very first time this year.
- Commentary
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Book One Spring Poems 32
The cherries, familiar from every year, feel as fresh as if they had bloomed for the first time this year. The poem frankly expresses how new the wonder at their beauty feels.
The first line, "each and every spring," means whenever spring comes, the same phrase as the first line of 25.
The second line, "they are flowers that I see, and yet," turns with the adversative "do": familiar flowers, but.
The third line, "this year," pairs with "each and every spring" in the first line.
The fourth line, "have only just begun to bloom," uses "taru," the attributive of the perfective "tari."
The last line, "it seems," closes a kakari-musubi with "koso" and the realis "sure"; it is the same last line as that of 8.
- Author
- Dōmyō
- Source
- Shika Wakashu
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