Japanese Waka-Ume : Water which can reflect flowers – Toshiwohete hananokagamito narumizuwa chirikakaruwoya kumorutoiuran.
Composing a Waka by watching a Ume-flower beside a pond.
Toshiwohete hananokagamito narumizuwa chirikakaruwoya kumorutoiuran.
(¨Kokin Waka syuu (Collection of Ancients and Modern Poems)¨, Spring poem, by Ise, 44,9c)
Translation into modern Japanese
The water surface have reflected Ume-flpwer for long time and became a mirror for the flower. Would people call the covered surface (with the fallen Ume-flower petals), as just like a blurred mirror (with dusts).
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Ume-flower brooms beside the pond in this year too. The surface of the pond is calm as the surface of a mirror, and reflects the Ume-tree which was dressed up with the flowers. On the surface of this pond, which acts as a mirror for the Ume-flower every year, again in this year, the flower petals fall one by one and float as if dusts cover on the surface of a mirror slowly. The falling petals draw circle waves which expand and disappear one after another. Then silence comes again. Petals spread on the surface of the pond and it no longer able to reflect the Ume-flower. While I look at these change on the surface of this pond, the Ume-flower season (spring) again passes in this year.
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