Composed on seeing cherry trees in the mountains.
見てのみや人にかたらむさくら花てごとにおりていへづとにせん
mite nomi ya
Should I this simple sight
The Monk Sosei素性法師
Topic unknown.
いしばしるたきなくもがな櫻花たおりてもこんみぬひとのため
isibasiru
Running o’er the rocks
Anonymous
Composed at the Nagisa Palace when he saw the cherries in bloom.
世中にたえてさくらのなかりせば春の心はのどけからまし
yo no naka ni If, in this world of ours
Ariwara no Narihira
Topic unknown.
山たかみ人もすさめぬさくら花いたくなわびそ我みはやさむ
yama takami
In these mountain heights
Anonymous
Composed when the cherry blossom planted at someone’s house had just come into flower.
ことしより春しりそむる櫻花ちるといふ事はならはさらなん
kotosi yori
From this year on
Ki no Tsurayuki
Whenever he went to Hatsuse on a pilgrimage, he stayed at a certain person’s house; he had not stayed there for quite some time, but his host said that there was certainly a place for him there. Hearing this, he broke a spray of plum blossom from a tree standing there and composed this poem.
人はいさ心もしらずふるさとは花ぞ昔のかににほひける
Fito Fa isa
Of people: one cannot
Ki no Tsurayuki
Topic unknown.
やどちかく梅の花うへじあぢきなく松人のかにあやまたれけり
yado tikaku
Close to my home
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
色よりもかこそあはれとおもほゆれたが袖ふれしやどの梅ぞも
iro yori mo
Rather than the colour
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
折りつれば袖こそにほへ梅花ありとやこゝにうぐひすのなく
oritureba
When I pluck a spray
Anonymous
When he was ordered by His Majesty to present poems, he composed and offered this.
あをやぎの絲よりかくる春しもぞみだれて花のほころびにける
awoyagi no The green willow
Ki no Tsurayuki (Ca. 872-945)
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