Tagui naku yo ni omoshiroki tori nareba yukashikarazu to tare ka omowamu - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

類なく世に面白き鳥なれば
ゆかしからずと誰か思はむ

Roma-ji: Tagui naku yo ni omoshiroki tori nareba yukashikarazu to tare ka omowamu
English Translation: Since it is a bird
so splendid in all the world
that it has no peer,
who is there who could believe
they would not long to see it
Meaning: Since it is a bird without equal in all the world, who could think they had no wish to see it?
Commentary: Book Nine Miscellaneous Poems I 566

Since it is a bird so splendid that nothing in the world compares, the poet asks, who could think they did not want to see it? Everyone would. Taking up the pure white hawk of the preceding poem, 565, it seems to express the wish to see that rare bird.
Following the preceding poem, it sings of a bird, using a rhetorical question to stress that it is one to which every heart is drawn.

First line, 'tagui naku', means without equal.
Second line, 'yo ni omoshiroki', means so splendid in this world, omoshiroshi describing something charming or wonderful.
Third line, 'tori nareba', means since it is a bird, the realis of the copula nari followed by ba giving the reason.
Fourth line, 'yukashikarazu to', means that I do not wish to see it, yukashi meaning drawn by the wish to see or know.
Final line, 'tare ka omowamu', means who would think so? No one would, the particle ka forming a rhetorical question answered by the attributive of mu.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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