How can I blame the cherry blossoms
for rejecting this floating world
and drifting away as the wind calls them?
From: Rexroth, Kenneth and Atsumi, Ikuko (eds. and transls.) Women Poets of Japan, 1982, New Directions: New York, p. 43.
(https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0BMQwLapofkC)
Date: 13th century (original in Japanese); 1977 (translation in English)
By: Fujiwara no Shunzei no Musume (Shunzei’s Daughter) (?1171-?1252)
Translated by: Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (1905-1982) and Ikuko Atsumi (1940- )
From Troubles of The World 