Inishie o shinobu to nashi ni furusato no yūbe no ame ni niou tachibana

いにしへを偲ぶとなしに故郷の
夕べの雨に匂ふ橘

Roma-ji: Inishie o shinobu to nashi ni furusato no yūbe no ame ni niou tachibana
English Translation: Though I do not seek
to recall the days long past,
in the ancient village
in the evening's falling rain,
fragrant breathes the orange tree.
Meaning: Though I do not mean to dwell on the past, in the old village, in the evening rain, the mandarin orange blossoms breathe their fragrance.
Commentary: Summer Poems 160

Headnote: "Mandarin orange at an old village"
The poet says that, though he does not set out to recall the past, the tachibana blossoms send out their fragrance in the evening rain of a run-down old village. He depicts how the scent of the tachibana, held to evoke the past, unexpectedly stirs nostalgia.
This poem was included in the Shokushūi Wakashū. Kamo no Mabuchi remarked that relying on the Kokin Wakashū poem in which the scent of the tachibana recalls the sleeves of someone of old, and composing with its words alone, is immature work by later poets, and that this too must be one of the poet's early poems.

Line 1 refers to the bygone past.
Line 2 means "without meaning to recall," the same turn of phrase as "without meaning to hear" in 140 and 141.
Line 3, furusato, is a village long inhabited and now in decline.
Line 4, "in the evening rain," lets the soft rain heighten the fragrance.
Line 5 ends on a noun, setting the fragrant tachibana last. Taking up "the village where orange blossoms fall" from the preceding poem, 159, the focus shifts from falling blossoms to fragrant ones.
Author: Minamoto no Sanetomo
Source: Kinkaishu
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