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Monthly Archives: June 2019

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Spring Sun

わたつうみのうらうらてらす春の日にあまもみるめをかりやほすらむ

wata tsu umi no
uraura terasu
haru no hi ni
ama mo mirume o
kari ya hosuramu
Across the broad sea sweep
Softly shines
The spring sun upon the
Fisherfolk, seaweed
Reaping, but would it dry?

Daishin

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Spring Sun

花もまたにほはずみゆる山ざとに春の日ぐらしながめをぞする

hana mo mata
niowazu miyuru
yamazato ni
haru no higurashi
nagame o zo suru
The blossom has yet
To scent, it seems,
My mountain dwelling;
With the sunset in springtime
Do I gaze upon it.

Higo

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Spring Sun

春の日は杣やまとほき里なれやくれまつほどの心ともなき

haru no hi wa
soma yama tōki
sato nare ya
kure matsu hodo no
kokoro tomonaki
The spring sun: not only do
Timber mountains’ distant
Dwellings
Awaiting dusk
Feel it…

Kanemasa

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Spring Sun

からころも春たちきぬとききしより日のうらうらとなりにけるかな

karakoromo
haru tachikinu to
kikishi yori
hi no uraura to
narinikeru kana
A Cathay robe,
Cut and sewn; spring has come –
Since I heard that
The sun has softly
Shone, indeed!

Tadafusa

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Spring Sun

かずならぬやどにははるのこざりせばくれぬをさへはなげかざらまし

kazu naranu
yado ni wa haru no
kozariseba
kurenu o sae wa
nagekazaramashi
To numberless
Dwellings has spring
Yet to come, so
A delay to dusk – even that
Does seem to bring no grief.

Toshiyori

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Spring Sun

ももちどりさへづる春はうらうらとなれども我が身くもりつつのみ

momochidori
saezuru haru wa
uraura to
naredomo wa ga mi
kumoritsutsu nomi
Plovers
Chirp; spring’s
Soft sunlight
Shines, yet I
Am ever covered in cloud…

Nakazane

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Spring Sun

おもへどもむかしの秋のかなしさはつきせざりける春の日くらし

omoedomo
mukashi no aki no
kanashisa wa
tsukisezarikeru
haru no higurashi
I feel it, yet
Ancient autumns’
Sadness
Does not seem to end
With a springtime sunset…

Akinaka

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Eikyū hyakushu

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Lingering Cold

雪きえぬみ山がくれは猶さえて春のしるしも見えず有りける

yuki kienu
miyamagakure wa
nao saete
haru no shirushi mo
miezu arikeru
The snow lingers on, and
My deep mountain retreat
Is still so chill, that
Not one sign of spring
Can I see at all…

Daishin

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Lingering Cold

春なれど雪ふるとしのなほちかみをののすみがま今朝や焼くらむ

haru naredo
yuki furu toshi no
nao chikami
ono no sumigama
kesa ya yakuramu
It is spring, yet
The year of falling snows
Is still close by;
Do the charcoal kilns at Ono
Burn this morn, I wonder?

Higo

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Lingering Cold

春風の猶さむしろをかさねばやたびの夜床はさえもこそすれ

harukaze no
nao samushiro o
kasaneba ya
tabi no yodoko wa
sae mo koso sure
The spring wind is
Yet so cold, threadbare blankets
Might I lay on
My journey-bed, but
Feel the chill all the more!

Kanemasa

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Man’yō Botanical Gardens

There are 37 botanical gardens throughout Japan devoted to displaying the plants and poetry of the Man’yōshū, of which 27 are open to the public. In July 2016, I visited ten of these for research purposes, in various parts of Japan’s main island, Honshu, and one of its others, Shikoku. Read More about “Man’yō Botanical Gardens”…

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