Waga yado no ume no hana sakeri harusame wa itaku na furi so chiramaku mo oshi

わが宿の梅の花咲けり春雨は
いたくな降りそ散らまくも惜し

Roma-ji: Waga yado no ume no hana sakeri harusame wa itaku na furi so chiramaku mo oshi
English Translation: At my dwelling now
the plum has come into flower;
O you rain of spring,
do not fall so very hard—
I would grieve to see them fall.
Meaning: The plum at my house is in bloom—spring rain, don't fall so hard; I would hate to see the blossoms scatter.
Commentary: Spring Poems 36

Headnote: "Plum blossoms dread the rain"
Since the plum at his house is in bloom, the poet calls on the spring rain not to fall so hard. He expresses his fear of rain that scatters the flowers in frank, Man'yō-style words. Kamo no Mabuchi marked it with a circle.
The Ruijū text gives the second line as ume wa hana sakeri, seven syllables. The poem draws on a Man'yōshū poem from Book Ten that asks the spring rain not to fall so hard, since the cherry blossoms would scatter before they have been seen.

Line 1, "At my dwelling," names the poet's residence, the same opening as 25.
Line 2 is hypermetric at eight syllables; it closes with the resultative ri, and the poem pauses here.
Line 3 addresses the spring rain.
Line 4 uses the prohibitive na…so, "do not fall so hard," the same form as "do not grieve so" in 29.
Line 5: chiramaku is the ku-nominalization of chiramu, "scattering," taken directly from the Man'yō source.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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