Oshinabete haru wa kinikeri tsukubane no ko no moto goto ni kasumi tanabiku

おしなべて春は来にけり筑波嶺の
木のもとごとに霞たなびく

Roma-ji: Oshinabete haru wa kinikeri tsukubane no ko no moto goto ni kasumi tanabiku
English Translation: Everywhere alike
springtime has come to us now;
on Tsukuba peak,
beneath every single tree,
the haze is trailing softly.
Meaning: Spring has come to every place alike—beneath each tree on Mount Tsukuba the haze lies trailing.
Commentary: Spring Poems 12

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Haze"
Seeing haze trailing beneath each of the trees on Mount Tsukuba, the poet recognizes that spring has spread to every corner. By picturing the haze reaching the foot of every single tree rather than simply the whole mountain, he expresses both the delicacy and the universality of spring's arrival.
Some characters in the third and fourth lines of the base text are hard to read, so the common reading tsukubane no ko no moto goto ni has been adopted.

Line 1, oshinabete ("everywhere alike"), means uniformly, showing like ōkata ni in 10 that spring has come to all.
Line 2: keri expresses wonder, and the poem pauses here. Placing in the second line the phrase that closes 1 and 7, the poet first declares spring's arrival outright.
Line 3, "Tsukuba peak," is Mount Tsukuba in Hitachi, the representative poetic site of the eastern provinces.
Line 4, "beneath every single tree," shows the haze reaching into every detail.
Line 5, "the haze is trailing," is the same closing as 2 and 11, and it concludes the set of three haze poems.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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