Topic unknown.
おもだかや下葉にまじるかきつばた花ふみわけてあさるしらさぎ
omodaka ya
shitaba ni majiru
kakitsubata
hana fumiwakete
asaru shirasagi | Amid the water plantains’
Under leaves are scattered
Irises;
Treading through the flowers
Comes a hunting snow-white heron. |
Former Middle Counsellor Sada’ie
前中納言定家
Topic unknown.
はれそむるみねのあさぎりひまみえて山の端わたるかりの一つら
haresomuru
mine no asagiri
hima miete
yama no ha wataru
kari no hitotsura | Beginning to clear
Are the morning mists from round the peak
And through the gaps appear
Crossing the mountains’ edge
A single line of geese. |
Fujiwara no Yorikiyo
On the end of spring, at a beach.
春のなごりながむるうらの夕なぎにこぎわかれゆく舟もうらめし
haru no nagori
nagamuru ura no
yūnagi ni
kogiwakareyuku
fune mo urameshi | A memento of spring
Brings comfort on the beach, where
In the evening calm
Rowing away from me
The boats I do envy so! |
Former Major Counsellor Tamekane
In a hundred poem sequence which he presented to the Hiyoshi Shrine.
春ふかき野でらたちこむる夕霞つつみのこせるかねの音かな
haru fukaki
nodera tachikomuru
yūgasumi
tsutsumi nokoseru
kane no oto kana | Deep in springtime
All around a temple ‘mong the meadows arises
Evening haze,
Lingering to envelop
The tolling of the bell! |
Former Major Archbishop Jichin [Jien]
前大僧正慈鎮[慈円]
Topic unknown.
みゆきふるかれ木のすゑのさむけきにつばさをたれてからすなくなり
miyuki furu
karegi no sue no
samukeki ni
tsubasa o tarete
karasu nakunari | Deep the snow falling
Upon the withered trees
So chilly that with
Drooping wings
The crows are cawing. |
Emperor Ichijō
On summer trees, when His Majesty, the Former Emperor, ordered him to produce a thirty poem sequence.
虹のたつふもとの杉は雲にきえて峰よりはるるゆふだちのあめ
niji no tatsu
fumoto no sugi wa
kumo ni kiete
mine yori haruru
yūdachi no ame | A rainbow rises above
Cedars in the foothills,
Vanishing in the clouds
Clearing from the peaks,
With an evening shower of rain. |
Former Senior Assistant Governor General of Dazai Toshikane
風寒みはだれ霜降る秋の夜は山下とよみ鹿ぞ鳴くなる
kaze samumi
hadarejimo furu
aki no yo wa
yamashita toyomi
shika zo nakunaru |
How chill the wind
Dusting frost
On this autumn night;
The foothills echoing with
The belling of the stags… |
Fujiwara no Mototoshi
藤原基俊
This poem is also included in the Horikawa Hyakushū.
'Simply moving and elegant'
