When someone was holding a plant-matching contest, and plants like morning glories were being compared, and a mirror blossom lay near her.
まけがたの耻かしげなる朝顏を鏡草にも見せてける哉
| makegata no Fadukasigenaru asagaFo wo kagamigusa ni mo misetekeru kana |
The loser Seems so bashful: The morning glory To the mirror bloom Has displayed herself! |
Anonymous
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さ夜ふくるままに汀や凍るらむ遠ざかりゆく志がの浦波
| sayo Fukuru mama ni migiFa ya koForuramu toFozakariyuku siga no uranami |
Is it while brief night Comes on that the waters’ edge Does seem to freeze? Ever more distant grow The waves on Shiga’s shore… |
Kaikaku
快覚
Sent to the home of Middle Councillor Sadayori.
はるばると野中に見ゆる忘れ水絶間絶間をなげくころかな
| Farubaru to nonaka ni miyuru wasuremidu taema taema o nageku koro kana |
In the distance Across the meadows I see A forgotten stream; All in pieces Comes my times of grief. |
Yamato no Senji
大和宣旨
When he had gone to Kibune, he wrote this on the fence surrounding the shrine.
思ふ事なる河上に跡垂れて貴船は人を渡す也けり
| omoFu koto naru kaFa kami ni atotarete kibune Fa Fito wo watasu narikeri |
The focus of my thoughts Are the river’s upper flows, Where incarnated The deity at Kibune, folk Transports. |
Fujiwara no Tokifusa
藤原時房
In reply.
祈りつつ千代をかけたる藤浪に生の松こそ思遣らるれ
| inoritutu tiyo wo kaketaru Fudinami ni iki no matu koso omoFiyararure |
I shall pray on across A thousand generations Of wisteria waves with The pines of Iki Ever in my thoughts. |
Fujiwara no Tamemasa
藤原為正
At a time when she was living with relatives, and the bush-clover was blooming particularly beautifully, the master of the house was somewhere else and not communicating, so she sent this to him.
白露も心おきてや思ふらむぬしもたづねぬやどの秋はぎ
| siratuyu mo kokoro okite ya omoFuramu nusi mo tasunenu yado no aki Fagi |
Silver dewdrops Also fall on their hearts I feel; As the master pays no call On his dwelling’s autumn bush-clover. |
Chikuzen Wet Nurse
筑前乳母
Composed on the beginning of love.
無名たつ人だに世にはある物を君戀る身と知られぬぞうき
| nakina tatu Fito dani yo ni Fa aru mono wo kimi koFuru mi to sirarenu zo uki |
Baseless rumours rise Of folk in this world – That happens, but That I love you Goes unknown is painful, indeed! |
Jitsugen
実源
忍びつゝやみなむよりは思事ありけるとだに人に知らせむ
| sinobitutu yaminamu yori Fa omoFugoto arikeru to dani Fito ni sirasemu |
My secret longings: Rather than they cease, that Thoughts I have – that I would have her know! |
Ōe no Yoshitoki
大江嘉言
In return.
沖つ波打出でむ事ぞつゝましき思ひよるべき汀ならねば
| oki tu nami uti’idemu koto zo tutumasiki omoFiyorubeki migiFa naraneba |
Waves in the offing Emerge That – I would keep secret, For an accommodating Shore is there none… |
The Mother of Lord Minamoto no Yori’ie
源頼家朝臣母
Sent to the residence of her wet nurse, to say that he wished to converse to a lady.
かくなむと蜑の漁火ほのめかせ磯べの波の折もよからば
| kaku namu to ama no isaribi Fonomekase isobe no nami no wori mo yokaraba |
Say “It is here,” As the fisher folk’s fires Faintly With the waves toward the rocky shore Draw near, in time… |
Minamoto no Yorimitsu
源頼光