Kokonoe ni hisashiku nioe yaezakura nodokeki haru no kaze to shirazu ya - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

九重に久しく匂へ八重桜
のどけき春の風と知らずや

Roma-ji: Kokonoe ni hisashiku nioe yaezakura nodokeki haru no kaze to shirazu ya
English Translation: Within the ninefold court
bloom on and on in beauty,
eightfold cherry flowers:
do you not know this is the wind
of a calm and gentle spring
Meaning: Bloom on in beauty for long years within the palace, double cherry blossoms; do you not know that this wind is the wind of a calm and peaceful spring?
Commentary: Book Five Celebration Poems 308

Calling on the double cherry blossoms of the palace to bloom forever, the poet says the wind now blowing is not one that scatters flowers but the spring wind of a peaceful reign. Setting the ninefold palace against the eightfold blossoms, the poem lays a well-ordered reign over the gentle spring wind.
Ise no Taifu's poem in the Shikashū, which sings of the double cherries of the old capital of Nara blooming today within the ninefold palace, likewise pairs ninefold and eightfold.
From poem 305 through poem 310 in this book come poems celebrating a thousand and ten thousand ages through such things as bamboo, the spring of Iwashimizu, pines, cherry blossoms and the poet's own self.

First line, 'kokonoe ni', means within the palace, its nine answering the eight of the third line.
Second line, 'hisashiku nioe', means bloom in beauty for long, an imperative addressed to the cherry.
Third line, 'yaezakura', is the double cherry with layered petals, set against 'ninefold' in the first line. The poem breaks after the third line. The next poem, 309, and poem 314 in this book also sing of cherry blossoms.
Fourth line, 'nodokeki haru no', means of a gentle spring, laying the peace of a well-ordered reign over it.
Final line, 'kaze to shirazu ya', means do you not know it is the wind, assuring the cherry that this is no wind to scatter its flowers.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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