Evening blossom on a mountain path.
道とほみけふこえくれば山ざくら花のやどりを我にかさなん
| michi tōmi kyō koekureba yamazakura hana no yadori o ware ni kasanan | Along distant roads Today I come travelling, so O, mountain cherries, Among your blossom shelter Won’t you lend me? |
Cherry blossom in the rain.
けふも又花にくらしつ春雨の露のやどりを我にかさなん
| kyō mo mata hana ni kurashitsu harusame no tsuyu no yadori o ware ni kasanan | Today once more I have dwelt beneath the blossom, so From spring showers Dewfall a shelter Won’t you lend me? |
Cherry blossom in the rain.
雨ふるとたちかくるれば山桜花のしづくにそほちぬるかな
| ame furu to tachi kakurureba yamazakura hana no shizuku ni sōchinuru kana | In the falling rain When I stood to shelter beneath A mountain cherry, Droplets from the blossom Did drench me! |
Cherry blossom on a distant mountain.
かづらきや高間のさくらながむれば夕ゐる雲に春雨ぞ降る
| kazuraki ya takama no sakura nagamureba yū iru kumo ni harusame zo furu | In Kazuraki When on Takama Mountain’s cherries I gaze From the clouds at the cusp of dusk Falls a springtime shower. |
A place famed for cherry blossom.
音にきくよしののさくら咲きにけり山のふもとにかかる白雲
| oto ni kiku yoshino no sakura sakinikeri yama no fumoto ni kakaru shirakumo | The famed Yoshino cherries Have bloomed; Around the mountains’ feet Cling clouds of white. |
For a folding screen with Mount Yoshino painted on it.
みよしのの山にこもりし山人や花をばやどの物と見るらん
| miyoshino no yama ni komorishi yamabito ya hana oba yado no mono to miruran | Upon fair Yoshino Mountain sealed Might the sage The blossom his dwelling’s Property consider? |
Composed when I had held an archery entertainment, and made a model of Mount Yoshino, with a sage gazing at blossom upon it.
みよしのの山に入りけん山人となりみてしかな花にあくやと
| miyoshino no yama ni iriken yamabito to nari miteshi kana hana ni aku ya to | Into fair Yoshino’s Mountains would I go; A mountain man Having become Might I have enough of blossom? |
Composed when I had held an archery entertainment, and made a model of Mount Yoshino, with a sage gazing at blossom upon it.
みよしのの山の山守花を見てながながし日をあかずも有るかな
| miyoshino no yama no yamamori hana o mite naganagashi hi o akazu mo aru kana | On fair Yoshino Mountain, a guardian Gazes on the blossom Throughout the long, long day He remains unsated! |
