For a painting of travellers resting beneath scarlet leaves, on a sliding door in the Awata mountain retreat of the Nijō Minister of the Right.
今よりは紅葉のもとにやどりせじをしむに旅の日かずへぬべし
| ima yori Fa momidi no moto ni yadorisezi wosimu ni tabi no Fikazu Fenubesi | From now on Beneath the scarlet leaves I’ll not be let rest, for Regretfully, my travelling Days have come upon me. |
Dharma Master Egyō
恵慶法師
Composed on travel
しら雲のかかるたびねもならはぬにふかき山ぢに日はくれにけり
| shirakumo no kakaru tabine mo narawanu ni fukaki yamaji ni hi wa kurenikeri | Clouds, so white, Surround me, sleeping on my travels, Unaccustomed to it, On deep mountain trails The sun has set. |
Supernumerary Archbishop Eien[1]
権僧正永縁
[1] This poem was originally composed for Horikawa hyakushu (1372).
After he had already grown old, he planted a flowering plum and, at the beginning of the year when he had something on his mind
うゑし時花見むとしもおもはぬにさきちる見ればよはひ老いにけり
| uesi toki Fana mimu to simo omoFanu ni sakitiru mireba yoFai oinikeri | When I planted them, These blossoms to see I did not think, but Seeing them bloom and scatter, Such is my old age! |
Lord Fujiwara no Sukemoto
藤原扶幹朝臣
When he presented a fifty-poem sequence.
たづねきて花にくらせる木のまよりまつとしもなき山のはの月
| tazunekite hana ni kuraseru ko no ma yori matsu to shimo naki yama no ha no tsuki | I came searching Blossom all day long Between the trees, when Though I’d not awaited it, saw The moon upon the mountains’ edge. |
Fujiwara no Masatsune
To say that from now on they should rest and relax in the pines’ shade, when he visited someone’s house.
かげにとて立ちかくるれば唐衣ぬれぬ雨ふるまつの声かな
| kage ni tote tachikakurureba karakoromo nurenu ame furu matsu no koe kana | In the shade, I say, To stand and hide myself away, for Upon my Cathay robe Will fall soughing rain— The sound of pines! |
Tsurayuki
Topic unknown.
おとにきくよしののさくら見にゆかむつげよやまもりはなのさかりは
| oto ni kiku yoshino no sakura mi ni yukamu tsugeyo yamamori hana no sakari wa | By repute I’ve heard of Yoshino’s cherries, so Them I’ll go and see! Tell me, Mountain warden, Of the blossoms’ profusion! |
Hitomaro[1]
[1] This poem is also Hitomaro-shū 260 and Shokusenzaishū I: 71.