Tazunetsuru ware o ya haru mo machitsuramu ima zo sakari ni nioimashikeru - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

尋ねつる我をや春も待ちつらむ
今ぞさかりににほひましける

Roma-ji: Tazunetsuru ware o ya haru mo machitsuramu ima zo sakari ni nioimashikeru
English Translation: I who came seeking,
was the spring itself as well
waiting here for me?
For now in all its fullness
it is blooming lovelier still
Meaning: Was spring itself waiting for me, who came in search of the blossoms? For now, at their height, they shine lovelier than ever.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems 30

Finding the blossoms at their peak when he comes to seek them, the poet rejoices, wondering whether spring too had been waiting for his visit. For a while from this poem, the sequence presents poems apparently connected with blossom viewing at Shirakawa.

First line, 'tazunetsuru', means having come to seek, using the attributive form of the perfective tsu.
Second line, 'ware o ya haru mo', means me, spring too, with ya forming a question.
Third line, 'machitsuramu', asks whether it had been waiting, and the poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, 'ima zo sakari ni', means now at its very height; zo closes on the attributive keru in the final line.
Final line, 'nioimashikeru', means its beauty had grown greater; niou here refers to the beauty of color.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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