かすみ行高嶺を出る朝日影さすがに春の色を見るかな
| kasumi yuku takane o izuru asahi kage sasuga ni haru no iro o miru kana |
From the hazing Peaks emerges The morning sunlight; Indeed, it is the shade Of spring I see. |
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Ise Shū 51
Ise Shū 50
Ise Shū 49
In the Twelfth Month, the man comes. As her father hears he is trying to meet her and will not allow it, he leaves, and the woman:
夜こゆとたれか告げけむ逢坂の關かたむめりはやく歸りね
| yoru koyu to tare ka tugekemu aFusaka no seki katamumeri hayaku kaFerine |
That you would come tonight Someone has revealed, it seems, and Upon the hill of meeting The barrier is warded well; Swiftly hie you homeward! |
Ise Shū 48
Ise Shū 47
The man comes when it is drizzling and says he must approach and talk to her:
綿津海のそこに深くは入れずともしぐれにだにも濡らさざらなむ
| watatu umi no soko no Fukaku Fa irezu tomo sigure ni dani mo nurasazaranamu |
Though to the boundless main’s Deepest depths I may not enter, At least within the drizzle Do not let me be drenched! |
Ise Shū 46
Her reply:
いづかたにありと聞かばか花すゝきはかなき空を招きたてらん
| idu kata ni ari to kikaba Fana susuki Fakanaki sora wo maneki tateran |
Which way were you To be found? Did they but know The stalks of miscanthus grass Would to the vacant sky Stand beckoning! |
Ise Shū 45
When she has gone out flower-viewing in the autumn fields, a man:
秋の野にいでぬとならば花薄しのびにわれを招きやはせぬ
| aki no no ni idenu to naraba Fana susuki sinobi ni ware wo maneki ya Fa senu |
If to the autumn fields You have gone, As the stalks of miscanthus grass Secretly, to me Will you not beckon? |