After he had left the world, he saw blossom by the Shira River and composed:
散るを見で歸る心やさくら花むかしに變るしるしなるらん
| tiru wo mide kaFeru kokoro ya sakurabana mukasi ni kaFaru sirusi naruran |
Falling flowers I’d not see – But head home: that is my feeling; The cherry blossoms, How different was my past, Reveal, perhaps. |
The Monk En’i
Composed when cherry blossom was falling profusely in her garden.
風だにも吹き拂はずば庭櫻ちるともはるのうちはみてまし
| kaze dani mo Fuki FaraFazuba niFazakura tiru tomo Faru no uti Fa mitemasi |
AIf the wind, at least, Does not blow clean My garden cherries, Fall they may, but while Spring Lasts, I would gaze upon them. |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部
Topic unknown.
梅の香を櫻の花ににほはせて柳がえだにさかせてしがな
| mume no ka wo sakura no Fana ni niFoFasete yanagi ga eda ni sakasetesi gana |
The scent of plum From cherry blossoms Wafting a perfumed glow, On willow branches I would set them to bloom. |
Nakahara no Munetoki (960-1011)
After Sukenobu’s Mother died, Atsutada often visited the house; when the cherry blossoms were falling, he was beneath a tree, when someone from the house said:
今よりは風にまかせむ櫻花散るこのもとに君とまりけり
| ima yori Fa kaze ni makasemu sakurabana tiru ko no moto ni kimi tomarikeri |
From this point on It rests with the wind; Cherry blossoms Fall yet, beneath the tree, with his son My Lord has remained. |
Anonymous
When going to a place far distant from his home, he garlanded some cherry blossoms from his garden.
さくら花主をわすれぬ物ならば吹き來む風に事づてはせよ
| sakurabana nusi wo wasurenu mono naraba Fukikomu kaze ni kotodute Fa seyo |
O, cherry blossoms, Do not forget your master; If such you are, then With the gusting wind, Send me a word. |
The Minister of the Right, Sugawara [no Michizane] (845-903)
菅原道真