Izukata ni yukikaeruramu harugasumi tachiidete yama no ha ni mo mienaku ni

いづかたに行き帰るらむ春霞
立ち出でて山の端にも見えなくに

Roma-ji: Izukata ni yukikaeruramu harugasumi tachiidete yama no ha ni mo mienaku ni
English Translation: Toward which far place
is it going home, I wonder,
the haze of spring?
It has risen and departed,
not seen even on the ridge.
Meaning: Where can it be going home to, the spring haze? It has risen and gone, and cannot be seen even along the mountain ridge.
Commentary: Spring Poems 127

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed on the end of spring"
At the end of spring, the poet asks where the spring haze is going home to. The haze that should have risen and departed cannot be seen even on the mountain ridge, and he entrusts to its whereabouts the loneliness of spring itself departing.
The Ruijū and Teika texts read the second line yukikakururamu ("going to hide"), and the Teika text reads the last line mienade. Some characters in the third and last lines of the base text are hard to read, so the readings tachiidete and mienaku ni of the Waka Database text have been adopted.

Line 1 asks "toward which place."
Line 2: ramu conjectures about the present, "where can it be going home."
Line 3 names the spring haze sung as the sign of spring's arrival in 1 and from 10 on. The haze that appeared with spring at the beginning of the section departs near its end, an echo between opening and close.
Line 4 means the haze has risen and gone out, taking up the "rising" of haze.
Line 5 is hypermetric at eight syllables; nakuni, the ku-nominalization of the negative with ni, sighs that it cannot be seen.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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