水の面に散りつむ花を見る時ぞ
はじめて風はうれしかりける
はじめて風はうれしかりける
- Roma-ji
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Mizu no omo ni chiritsumu hana o miru toki zo hajimete kaze wa ureshikarikeru
- English Translation
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On the water's face
when I see the petals heaped
fallen there, it's then
that for the first time the wind
has become a joy to me
- Meaning
- It is when I see the blossoms heaped upon the surface of the water that for the first time the wind brings me joy.
- Commentary
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Book One Spring Poems 63
The wind that scatters flowers had always been hateful, but seeing the lovely sight of petals heaped on the water, the poet for the first time feels glad of the wind. It is a conceit that expresses the opposite feeling to the many poems resenting the wind.
First line, 'mizu no omo ni', means the surface of the water.
Second line, 'chiritsumu hana o', means scattered and heaped, close to chiritsumoru in poem 49.
Third line, 'miru toki zo', uses zo, which closes on the attributive keru in the final line.
Fourth line, 'hajimete kaze wa', shows a change in his view of the wind he had long resented.
Final line, 'ureshikarikeru', means it was a joy, contrasting with poems such as 61 that resent the wind.
- Source
- Kinyo Wakashu
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