Composed when the cherry blossom planted at someone’s house had just come into flower.
ことしより春しりそむる櫻花ちるといふ事はならはさらなん
| kotosi yori Faru sirisomuru sakurabana tiru to iFu koto Fa naraFazaranan |
From this year on I’ll deeply feel the spring With these cherry blossoms. That they will soon be gone- Oh, that I did not know it! |
Ki no Tsurayuki
紀貫之