Peach Blossom (桃花)
さきにけりいはゐの水にかげ見えてみちとせになるももの初花
sakinikeri
iwai no mizu ni
kage miete
michitose ni naru
momo no hatsuhana | They have bloomed!
In the celebratory waters
Does their form appear –
After three thousand years
The first peach blossoms… |
Tadafusa
Peach Blossom (桃花)
たれか又みてしのぶらん山がつのそのふのももの花のこぞめを
tare ka mata
mite shinoburan
yamagatsu no
sonofu no momo no
hana kozome o | Who, I wonder, once more would
Gaze upon them and recall
A mountain man’s
Garden-planted peaches’
Blossoms’ rich hues? |
Toshiyori
Peach Blossom (桃花)
うすくこくけふさきあへる桃の花ゑひをすすむる色にぞ有りける
usuku koku
kyō sakiaeru
momo no hana
ei o susumuru
iro ni zo arikeru | Both pale and rich
Today blooming together are
The peach blossoms –
To drunkenness am I urged
By their hues! |
Nakazane
Peach Blossom (桃花)
かきごしに枝さしかはす桃の花たれもちとせをかさねてやみん
kakigoshi ni
eda sashikawasu
momo no hana
tare mo chitose o
kasanete ya min | Over the fence do
The boughs in profusion thrust;
Peach blossoms –
Does every one of them a thousand years
Seem to bear? |
Akinaka
Scarlet Plum (紅梅)
色もかもめづらしきかなくれなゐにいまさらそむる梅の初花
iro mo kamo
mezurashiki kana
kurenai ni
ima sara somuru
ume no hatsuhana | Even their hue
Is sweetly precious!
With scarlet
Just now are dyed
The first blooms of plum. |
Daishin
Scarlet Plum (紅梅)
たぐひなきかをりにそへていとどしくくれなゐふかくにほふ梅かな
taguinaki
kaori ni soete
itodoshiku
kurenai fukaku
niou ume kana | Peerless,
The scent brushes by, and
Eventually,
With deep scarlet
Glows the plum! |
Higo
Scarlet Plum (紅梅)
みる人のあくしなければ梅の花うすくれなゐの色もかへらず
miru hito no
adashinakereba
ume no hana
usukurenai no
iro mo kaerazu | That folk gaze on is
Meaningless, so
The plum blossoms’
Pale scarlet
Hue, too, will not return. |
Kanemasa
Scarlet Plum (紅梅)
にほふかもなつかしきかなわぎもこが衣にそむるくれなゐの梅
niou kamo
natsukashiki kana
wagimoko ga
koromo ni somuru
kurenai no ume | Of their sheen
I am most fond!
My darling’s
Robes, dyed with
Scarlet plum. |
Tadafusa
Scarlet Plum (紅梅)
くれなゐの梅が枝になくうぐひすの声の色さへことにも有るかな
kurenai no
ume ga e ni naku
uguisu no
koe no iro sae
koto ni aru kana | Upon a scarlet
Plum’s branches sings
The warbler –
Even her song has a hue
Most particular! |
Toshiyori
Scarlet Plum (紅梅)
くれなゐにさきかさなれる梅の花新羅にやりて何にならへん
kurenai ni
sakikasanareru
ume no hana
shiragi ni yarite
nani ni narahen | In scarlet
Sprays do bloom
Plum blossom:
Sent to Silla
To what might they compare? |
Nakazane
'Simply moving and elegant'