Cherry Blossom
Left (Win)
さきさかずよそにてもみむやまざくらみねのしらくもたちなかくしそ
| saki sakazu yoso nite mo mimu yamazakura mine no shirakumo tachi na kakushi so | Whether they blossom, or blossom not In the distance would I gaze Upon the mountain cherries, so O, clouds of white around the peaks, Do not rise to conceal them! |
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Right
しらくものたつかとみゆるさくらばなやまのまもなくちりやかふらん
| shirakumo no tatsu ka to miyuru sakurabana yama no ma mo naku chiri ya kauran | ‘Have clouds, so white, Arisen?’ I wonder, beholding Cherry blossom, but Might the mountains, so swiftly, With their scattering, change? |
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[i] This poem is included in Shūishū (I: 38), as an anonymous poem with the headnote ‘From a palace poetry match held in Tenryaku 9’. It is also included in Shūishō (I: 23) as an anonymous poem with the headnote ‘From a palace poetry match held on the 29th day of the Third Month, Tenryaku 9’.