Oshimu tomo koyoi akenaba asu yori wa hana no tamoto o nugi ya kaesamu

惜しむとも今宵明けなば明日よりは
花の袂を脱ぎや替へさむ

Roma-ji: Oshimu tomo koyoi akenaba asu yori wa hana no tamoto o nugi ya kaesamu
English Translation: Though I grieve for it,
if this night should break to dawn,
then from tomorrow
the sleeves of blossom color
must I take off and change?
Meaning: However I grieve, once this night breaks, must I take off my blossom-colored sleeves tomorrow and change into another robe?
Commentary: Spring Poems 130

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "The last day of the third month"
However much he regrets spring, the poet laments, once this night ends tomorrow will be the first day of the fourth month, the day for changing robes, and he must take off his blossom-colored clothes. Through the court custom of seasonal change of dress, he expresses his sorrow at spring's end. Kamo no Mabuchi said that using hana no tamoto for colored robes, as Henjō did, is fine, but using it to mean sleeves dyed cherry color is a later usage.
The Ruijū text reads the last line nugikaen, and the Teika text nugi ya kaemu.

Line 1: tomo is a concessive hypothetical, "however I grieve."
Line 2 means "if this night breaks to dawn," showing that this is the night of the last day of the third month.
Line 3 means "from the first of the fourth month," the beginning of summer.
Line 4 names the sleeves of a spring robe dyed the color of blossoms, the phrase Mabuchi called a later usage.
Line 5: ya is interrogative, concluded by the attributive of mu. Where the preceding poem, 129, tried to keep spring in the bedchamber, here the poet tries to accept that he must change his robes tomorrow.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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