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Analysis

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	As with the previous poem, the commentators vacillate on whether we should read this as a love meaning or not.		As with the previous poem, the commentators vacillate on whether we should read this as a love meaning or not. The weight of opinion is with the love reading, and the few that reject it seem to be doing so out of a belief that the seasonal volumes cannot contain love poems. An alternate idea given by some medieval commentaries is that it's based on Bai Juyi's poem 李夫人, where the Emperor recalls Lady Li after her death when he smells plum blossoms. Both Katagiri and the ''Shin zenshu'' suggest Chinese models as well, though not as specifically.

			If anything this poem has a more blatant love meaning than the previous one, although as the {{Teika\|Hichu}} notes, it's the inversion of the previous poem -- this time confusing scent for a person.

			Katagiri considers this a possible screen painting poem showing a woman waiting in a house with plums trees. The poem itself is entirely the woman's thought, with no indication that she is gazing out over the flowers. Takeoka points to the あぢきなく as the hinge of the poem, almost direct enough to make it a ''haikai'' (comic, or casual) poem.

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 * 猿丸集３１. Prose preface まへちかき梅の花のさきたりけるを見て

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