Kokoro uki kaze ni mo aru kana sakurabana saku hodo mo naku chirinuberanari

心憂き風にもあるかな桜花
咲くほどもなく散りぬべらなり

Roma-ji: Kokoro uki kaze ni mo aru kana sakurabana saku hodo mo naku chirinuberanari
English Translation: What a heartless thing,
what a cruel wind you are!
The cherry blossoms,
barely have they come to bloom,
already seem about to fall.
Meaning: What a heartless wind it is! The cherry blossoms have barely opened, and already they seem about to fall.
Commentary: Spring Poems 70

Headnote: "Blossoms resent the wind"
The poet resents the wind for scattering cherry blossoms that have barely opened. As the topic "blossoms resent the wind" suggests, he takes the flowers' side and frankly voices bitterness toward the wind.
The Ruijū and Teika texts differ in the last line. One character in the last line of the base text is hard to read, so the common reading chirinuberanari has been adopted.

Line 1, kokoro uki ("heartless"), voices resentment toward the wind.
Line 2: kana expresses emotion, and the poem pauses here.
Line 3 names the blossoms scattered by the wind.
Line 4 means "barely having bloomed."
Line 5: berana(ri) is formed from the stem of beshi with ra and nari, meaning "seems about to." Where the preceding poem, 69, hoped the flowers would escape the wind's notice, here the poet laments flowers already exposed to it, deepening from dread to resentment.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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