Early Evening (晩立)
故郷をたづぬる道にかきくらしむら雲さわぐ夕立のそら
furusato o
tazunuru michi ni
kakikurashi
muragumo sawagu
yūdachi no sora | My ancient home
Is visited by paths
Dragged into darkness by
The crowding clouds
In a sky of evening showers. |
Higo
Early Evening (晩立)
夕立にをちのみぞ川まさりつつふらぬ里までながれきにけり
yūdachi ni
ochi no mizogawa
masaritsutsu
furanu sato made
nagare kinikeri | With the evening showers
The distant drainage ditches
Are overflowing;
All the way to an untouched estate
Do they run! |
Kanemasa
Early Evening (晩立)
朝日山さしてきたれど夕立にかづくたもとはひるよしもなし
asahiyama
sashite kitaredo
yūdachi ni
kazuku tamoto wa
hiru yoshi mo nashi | Across Asahi Mountain
I have made my way, yet
Evening shower
Drenched sleeves
Have no reason to dry. |
Tadafusa
Early Evening (晩立)
夕立はきりにきるともあづさ弓いにいてさへばくれずも有るかな
yūdachi wa
kiri ni kirutomo
azusayumi
ini’ide saeba
kurezu mo aru kana | Evening showers
Clad in mist, yet
When a catalpa bow
Emerges to interfere
There is no dusk, at all. |
Toshiyori
Early Evening (晩立)
夕立やたらちねならんぬれがほも猶なつかしきをみなへしかな
yūdachi ya
tarachine naran
nuregao mo
nao natsukashiki
ominaeshi kana | Are the evening showers
Their mother, perhaps?
A tear-streaked face, too
Is dear, indeed,
On a maidenflower… |
Nakazane
Early Evening (晩立)
夕立や雲のさわぎに風はやみ露をとどむる草のはぞなき
yūdachi ya
kumo no sawagi ni
kaze wa yami
tsuyu o todomuru
kusa no ha zo naki | An evening shower:
The clouds confused
With the dropping of the wind, and
Dewdrops lingering
On not a single blade of grass. |
Akinaka
鳴るかみの夕立にこそ雨は降れ御手あら新井洗川の水まさるらし
narukami no
yūdachi ni koso
ame wa fure
mitarashigawa no
mizu masarurashi |
The thunder
Brings an evening shower
Fall of rain:
The Mitarashi River’s
Waters seem high, indeed! |
Nōin
能因
夏の日の俄かに曇る夕立の思ひもかけぬ世にもあるかな
natu no Fi no
niFka ni kumoru
yuFudati no
omoFi mo kakenu
yo ni mo aru kana |
A summer day
Briefly clouded by
An evening shower:
How unexpected
Is this world! |
夕立の雨うち降れば春日野の尾花が上の白露は思ほゆ
yuFudati no
ame utiFureba
kasugano no
wobana ga uFe no
siratuyu Fa omoFoyu |
When evening showers’
Rain does fall,
On the plain at Kasuga
Upon the miscanthus grass
Silver dewfall comes to mind. |
夕立に夏はいぬめりそぼちつつ秋の境にいまやいたらむ
yuFudati ni
natu Fa inumeri
sobotitutu
aki no sakaFi ni
ima ya itaramu |
In an evening shower
Summer seems to leave;
All drenched is
The edge of autumn
Now arrived, indeed! |
'Simply moving and elegant'