Sakurabana chirasade chiyo mo miteshigana akanu kokoro wa satemo ari ya to - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

桜花散らさで千代も見てしがな
飽かぬ心はさてもありやと

Roma-ji: Sakurabana chirasade chiyo mo miteshigana akanu kokoro wa satemo ari ya to
English Translation: Cherry blossoms,
unscattered, for a thousand years
I would gaze on you,
to learn if this unsated heart
would even then remain.
Meaning: I would gaze on the cherry blossoms, unscattered, for a thousand years, just to see whether this heart that never tires of them would still be the same.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems 35

The poet wishes to keep the cherries from scattering and look at them for a thousand years, to find out whether a heart that never tires of them would still be there. Love for flowers one can never see enough of is expressed in the form of a wish to put it to the test.

The first line, "cherry blossoms," begins the cherry poems that turn on falling flowers.
The second line, "unscattered, for a thousand years," uses "de" as a negative connective: without scattering them.
The third line, "I would gaze on you," uses the wishing particle "teshigana"; the poem breaks here.
The fourth line, "this unsated heart," means the heart that never wearies of looking.
The last line, "would even then remain," is inverted, returning to the third line to give the reason.
Author: Minamoto no Shitagō
Source: Shika Wakashu
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