Ume ga ka o yume no makura ni sasoikite samuru machikeru haru no hatsukaze

梅が香を夢の枕に誘ひ来て
覚むる待ちける春の初風

Roma-ji: Ume ga ka o yume no makura ni sasoikite samuru machikeru haru no hatsukaze
English Translation: The scent of the plum
it carried to my dreaming
pillow as I slept,
and waited for me to wake—
the first breeze of the spring.
Meaning: It carried the plum's fragrance to my pillow as I dreamed, and waited for me to wake—the first breeze of spring.
Commentary: Spring Poems 34

Headnote: "On an occasion when I had several people compose on the theme of plum blossoms fragrant in the wind"
This poem was written when the poet had several people compose on "plum blossoms fragrant in the wind." The first breeze of spring brings the plum scent to the sleeper's pillow and seems to wait for him to wake, treating the wind as if it were a person. Linking dream and fragrance, it is an elegant conceit. Kamo no Mabuchi called the phrase "the pillow of dreams" a later style.
In the Ruijū text the headnote ends "…on the occasion when I had people compose," and the Ruijū and Teika texts differ in the lower verse.

Line 1, "The scent of the plum," names what the wind carries.
Line 2, "to my dreaming pillow," is the phrasing Mabuchi found to be a later style.
Line 3, "it carried," means the wind invites and brings the scent, personifying the wind.
Line 4, "waited for me to wake": keru, the attributive of keri, modifies "breeze" in the last line.
Line 5 ends on a noun, the same closing as the preceding poem, 33. Two poems in a row sing of the first breeze carrying plum scent, and the place the scent reaches moves from the sleeve to the pillow.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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