Saritomo to omoishi hodo ni ume no hana chirisuguru made kimi ga kimasanu

さりともと思ひしほどに梅の花
散り過ぐるまで君が来まさぬ

Roma-ji: Saritomo to omoishi hodo ni ume no hana chirisuguru made kimi ga kimasanu
English Translation: "Surely, even so,"
I thought, and while I waited
the plum's fair blossoms
scattered till they all were gone—
and still you did not come to me.
Meaning: Thinking you would surely come, I waited—but the plum blossoms scattered and were gone, and still you did not come.
Commentary: Spring Poems 28

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on plum blossoms"
The poet had hoped that surely this person would come while the plum was in bloom, yet they never came even as the blossoms fell away, and he feels resentment. In the passing of the plum's season he overlays the impatience and loneliness of one who waits. Kamo no Mabuchi remarked that saritomo ("surely, even so") is a later word.
One character in the last line of the base text is hard to read, so the common reading kimi ga kimasanu has been adopted.

Line 1: saritomo means "even so, surely," a word full of expectation; Mabuchi regarded it as a later word.
Line 2, "while I thought so," marks the passing of time.
Line 3 presents the plum as the measure of the time spent waiting.
Line 4, "till they all were gone," means until the flowers had entirely fallen.
Line 5: kimasu is an honorific of "come," and ending on nu, the attributive of the negative zu, leaves a lingering lament. In contrast to 25, which invited visitors, this poem grieves that the awaited one does not come.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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