Topic unknown.
吹風にあつらへつくるものならばこの一本は避きよと言はまし
Fuku kaze ni
aturaFetukuru
mono naraba
kono Fitomoto Fa
yokiyo to iFamasi | Should the gusting wind
Take orders,
Then,
‘This single spray
Avoid!’ – that’s what I would say! |
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
花のごと世の常ならば過ぐしてし昔は又も帰りきなまし
Fana no goto
yo no tune naraba
sugusitesi
mukasi Fa mata mo
kaFerikinamasi | Were the ever-cycling blossoms
To be a model for this world,
For the long-gone
Past once more to
Return – that’s what I would want. |
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
春ごとに花の盛りはありなめどあひ見む事はいのちなりけり
Faru gotot ni
Fana no sakari Fa
arinamedo
aFimimu koto Fa
inoti narikeri | In every springtime are there
Blossoms in profusion,
No doubt, and yet
Whether I will see them more
Hangs upon my lifeline. |
Anonymous
When he had gone to the northern hills to view the blossom, he sent this to the residence of the Un’rin-in Prince.[1]
いざけふは春の山辺にまじりなむ暮れなばなげの花の影かは
iza keFu Fa
Faru no yamabe ni
mazirinamu
kurenaba nage no
Fana no kage ka Fa | So, on this day
Into the springtime mountains
Let us tread!
For even should dusk fall, brief
Would the blossoms glow be? Surely not! |
Sosei
[1] Imperial Prince Tsuneyasu 常康親王 (?-869), the seventh son of Emperor Ninmyō.
Composed as a Spring poem.
三輪山をしかも隠すか春霞人に知られぬはなやさくらむ
miwayama wo
sikamo kakusu ka
Farugasumi
Fito ni sirarenu
Fana ya sakuramu | Miwa Mountain
Will you thus conceal,
O, haze of spring?
Might, unknown to all,
Blossoms be blooming there? |
Tsurayuki
Topic unknown.
春の色のいたりいたらぬ里はあらじさけるさかざる花の見ゆらん
Faru no iro no
itari itaranu
sato Fa arazi
sakeru sakazaru
Fana no miyuran | The hues of spring
Spread on, and fail to reach
No spots at all, so why do
Some bloom, and some bloom not?
These blossoms – or so it seems… |
Anonymous
A poem from the Poetry Contest held at the Palace of Former Emperor Uda.
さくら花ちりぬるかぜのなごりには水なき空に浪ぞたちける
sakurabana
tirinuru kaze no
nagori ni Fa
midu naki sora ni
nami zo tatikeru | Cherry blossoms
Scattered, the wind
Leaves a keepsake
In the waterless sky of
A wave of broken petals. |
Tsurayuki
Composed on returning from an ascent of Mount Hiei.
山たかみ見つつわが来しさくら花風は心にまかすべらなり
yama takami
mitutu wa ga kosi
sakurabana
kaze Fa kokoro ni
makasuberanari | On the mountain’s heights,
Did I ever see, when homeward bound,
Cherry blossoms, where
Now the wind will
Do as it wants! |
Tsurayuki
Composed on the scattering of cherry blossoms.
雪とのみふるだにあるをさくら花いかにちれとか風のふく覧
yuki to nomi
Furu dani aru wo
sakurabana
ika ni tire to ka
kaze no Fukuran | Simply as snow
Do fall the
Cherry blossoms:
So why to scatter them
Does the wind seem to blow? |
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
Composed on the scattering of cherry blossoms, while in the guard post for the Crown Prince’s Palace.
春風は花のあたりをよきてふけ心づからやうつろふとみむ
Farukaze Fa
Fana no atari wo
yokite Fuke
kokorodukara ya
uturoFu to mimu | O, winds of Spring,
While the blossoms bloom
Refrain from blowing!
Does their own heartbreak
Fade them I would wonder. |
Fujiwara no Yoshikaze
'Simply moving and elegant'