Yamazakura chiraba chiranamu oshige nami yoshi ya hito mizu hana no natate ni

山桜散らば散らなむ惜しげなみ
よしや人見ず花の名立てに

Roma-ji: Yamazakura chiraba chiranamu oshige nami yoshi ya hito mizu hana no natate ni
English Translation: Mountain cherry tree,
if you'll fall, then fall away,
for none grieve for you;
what of it—no one sees you,
only to give you a name.
Meaning: Mountain cherry, if you're going to fall, then fall—no one shows any regret. What does it matter? No one sees you; it would only give the blossoms a reputation.
Commentary: Spring Poems 74

Headnote: "On a folding screen showing cherry trees in bloom in the mountains"
Responding to a screen painting of cherries in the mountains, the poet tells a mountain cherry, seen by no one and mourned by no one, to fall if it will. Within the seemingly dismissive words, his tenderness toward the flower shows all the more.
The second line contains an error in the original, which the editor corrected to chiraba chiranamu on the basis of the Ruijū text, and that correction is followed here.

Line 1 addresses the mountain cherry painted on the screen.
Line 2 repeats the verb, dismissively saying "if you'll fall, then fall"; namu is a particle of wish, and the poem pauses here.
Line 3: oshige nami means "since there is no sign of regret," with mi giving the reason.
Line 4: yoshi ya means "no matter," declaring that no one sees.
Line 5 means "only to make a name for the blossoms." Where 73 said the poet alone visits the unnoticed mountain cherry, here he tells the unseen cherry to fall, treating the same subject in reverse.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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