n the Fourth Month of the First Year of the Ōtoku period (1084) at the Sanjō Palace he composed this on the profusion of leaves on the trees in the garden.
たまがしはにはも葉廣になりにけりこや木綿四手て神まつるころ
| tamagasiFa niFa mo Fabiro ni narinikeri koya yuFu sidete kami maturu koro | The oak trees In the garden in full fledge Do stand. Look! Mulberry streamers flutter For the gods here now! |
Major Councillor [Minamoto no] Tsunenobu
When he was in service at an imperial progress to Ōi.
おほゐがは井せきのおとのなかりせばこのはをしけるわたりとやみん
| oFowigawa wiseki no oto no nakariseba ko no Fa wo sikeru watari wo ya min | Upon the River Ōi If the weirs sounded Not, then At the leaves spread All around would we even look? |
Master of the Palace Repairs Office Akisue
Round Thirty-Three
Left
わびぬればいまはたおなじ難波なる身をつくしてもあはむとぞ思ふ
| wabinureba ima wa taonaji naniwa naru mi wo tsukushitemo awan to zo omou | Suffering I was, so Now, ‘tis just as then; By Naniwa’s Channel marks, though I die, I would meet you. |
65[i]
Right
きえわびぬうつろふ人の秋の色に身を木がらしのもりのしらつゆ
| kiewabinu utsurou hito no aki no iro ni mi o kogarashi no mori no shiratsuyu | I am too grieved to die! My fickle love showed me She’d had enough with autumn’s colours; Now, I yearn for her as the bitter wind Drenches the forest with silver dewfall. |
66[ii]
[i] GSS XIII: 960/961. Sent to the Kyōgoku Lady of the Bedchamber (Fujiwara no Hōshi 藤原褒子) after things got out.
[ii] SKKS XIV: 1320: From the Poetry Contest in 1500 Rounds.
Round Thirty-Two
Left
あふことはとほ山ずりのかりころもきてはかひなきねをのみぞなく
| au koto wa tōyamazuri no karikoromo kite wa kainaki ne o nomi zo naku | Meeting her: Distant mountains pattern My hunting garb: Donning it is pointless, so My sobs do simply fall. |
63[i]
Right
をぐら山しぐるるころのあさなあさな昨日はうすき四方のもみぢば
| ogurayama shigururu koro no asana asana kinō wa usuki yomo no momijiba | On gloomy Ogura Mountain When the showers fall Each and every morning, How faded are yesterday’s Scarlet leaves, all around. |
64[ii]
[i] GSS X: 679/680: When he was sent a set of hunting robes from the residence of a woman he had been visiting secretly, he wrote this on the pattern of the hunting garb.
[ii] Shokugosenshū VII: 419/411: On autumn mornings, kōshin Fourth Month, Kenpo 5 [May 1217].
On autumn mornings, kōshin Fourth Month, Kenpo 5.
をぐら山しぐるるころのあさなあさな昨日はうすき四方のもみぢば
| ogurayama shigururu koro no asana asana kinō wa usuki yomo no momijiba | On gloomy Ogura Mountain When the showers fall Each and every morning, How faded are yesterday’s Scarlet leaves, all around. |
Former Middle Counsellor Sada’ie
When he was sent a set of hunting robes from the residence of a woman he had been visiting secretly, he wrote this on the pattern of the hunting garb.
あふことはとほ山ずりのかりころもきてはかひなきねをのみぞなく
| aFu koto Fa toFoyamazuri no karikoromo kite Fa kaFinaki ne o nomi zo naku | Meeting her: Distant mountains pattern My hunting garb: Donning it is pointless, so My sobs do simply fall. |
Prince Motoyoshi
Round Thirty-One
Left
花のいろはむかしながらにみし人の心のみこそうつろひにけれ
| hana no iro wa mukashi nagara ni mishi hito no kokoro nomi koso utsuroinikere | The hues of this blossom are Just as long ago, when She I saw them with has Her heart, indeed, Moved elsewhere! |
Prince Motoyoshi
61[i]
Right
ひとりぬるやまどりのをのしだり尾にしもおきまよふとこの月影
| hitori nuru yamadori no o no shidario ni shimo okimayou toko no tsukikage | Sleeping alone, The mountain pheasant’s tail Hangs down, Mistaking for fallen frost The moonlight on his bed.[ii] |
Supernumerary Middle Counsellor Sada’ie
62[iii]
[i] GSS III: 102: Prince Motoyoshi lived with the daughter of Lord Kanemori, but she was summoned by the Cloistered Emperor and, while she was in service to him, he was unable to meet her, so at the beginning of the year in springtime, he took a branch of cherry blossom, and left it thrust through the doorway of her chamber.
[ii] An allusive variation on SIS XIII: 778, which appears as poem (3) in this contest.
[iii] SKKS V: 487: When he presented a Hundred Poem Sequence.
When he presented a Hundred Poem Sequence.
ひとりぬるやまどりのをのしだり尾にしもおきまよふとこの月影
| hitori nuru yamadori no o no shidario ni shimo okimayou toko no tsukikage | Sleeping alone, The mountain pheasant’s tail Hangs down, Mistaking for fallen frost The moonlight on his bed.[i] |
Lord Fujiwara no Sada’ie
[i] An allusive variation on SIS XIII: 778.
Prince Motoyoshi lived with the daughter of Lord Kanemori, but she was summoned by the Cloistered Emperor and, while she was in service to him, he was unable to meet her, so at the beginning of the year in springtime, he took a branch of cherry blossom, and left it thrust through the doorway of her chamber.
花のいろはむかしながらにみし人の心のみこそうつろひにけれ
| Fana no iro Fa mukasi nagara ni misi Fito no kokoro nomi koso uturoFinikere | The hues of this blossom are Just as long ago, when She I saw them with has Her heart, indeed, Moved elsewhere! |
Prince Motoyoshi
