Topic unknown.
都いでて今日みかの原泉河かは風さむし衣かぜ山
| miyako idete keFu mika no Fara idumigaFa kaFakaze samusi koromo kaseyama |
Departing the capital, Today on Mika meadow, From the River Izumi Chill is the wind, indeed, so Lend me your robe, O Kase Moutain! |
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
飛ぶ鳥の声も聞えぬ奥山の深き心を人は知らなむ
| tobu tori no kowe mo kikoenu okuyama no Fukaki kokoro wo Fito Fa siranamu |
Flying birds’ Song does not reach The mountains’ heart; The depths of my love I would have you know! |
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
津の国のなには思はず山城の鳥羽に逢ひ見むことをのみこそ
| tu no kuni no naniFa omoFazu yamasiro no toba ni aFimimu koto wo nomi koso |
In the land of Tsu, Nothing is in my heart; In Yamashiro, In Toba, would I meet You and that is all! |
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
誰をかも知る人にせむ高砂の松も昔の友ならなくに
| tare wo ka mo siru Fito ni semu takasago no matu mo mukasi no tomo naranaku ni |
Who is it that I can say I know? Takasago’s Pines are no longer My friends as of old… |
Fujiwara no Okikaze
藤原興風
Topic unknown.
誰が里に夜がれをしてか郭公ただここにしも寝たる声する
| ta ga sato ni yokare o site ka Fototogisu tada koko ni simo netaru kowesuru |
At whose home Do you pass the night, O, cuckoo? For it is here, alone That you should sleep and sing! |
Anonymous
Composed on the topic of monkeys howling from the mountain passes on a day when the Cloistered Emperor had gone to the Western River.
わびしらにましらな鳴きそ足引きの山のかひある今日にやはあらぬ
| wabisira ni masira na naki so asiFiki no yama no kaFi aru keFu ni ya wa aranu |
So sadly, O Monkeys, howl not! Leg-wearying The mountain valleys are, yet Today, there is no point! |
Mitsune
A poem from the Kamo winter festival.
ちはやぶるかものやしろのひめこまつよろづ世ふともいろはかはらじ
| tiFayaburu kamo no yasiro no Fimekomatu yoroduyo Futomo iro Fa kaFarazi |
At puissant Kamo Shrine, The Princess’ pine, Though ten thousand ages pass Will never change her hue! |
Fujiwara no Toshiyuki
藤原敏行
Topic unknown.
伊勢の海女の朝な夕なにかづくてふ見るめに人を飽くよしもがな
| ise no ama no asa na yuFu na ni kazuku teFu mirume ni Fito wo aku yosi mogana |
The diver-girls at Ise Both morn and night do Dive beneath, they say; A seaweed-tangled glimpse of you: If only that would sate me! |
Anonymous
Composed and sent to someone who had come to see the cherry blossoms blooming at his house.
わが宿の花見がてらに来る人は散りなむのちぞこひしかるべき
| wa ga yado no Fanami ga tera ni kuru Fito Fa tirinamu noti zo koFisikarubeki |
To my home For blossom-viewing Folk come, but After they have scattered How fond of them I am! |
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
During the Chōgan Era, when His Majesty enquired when the Man’yōshū was created, he composed this and presented it.
神無月時雨ふりをけるならの葉の名におふ宮の古ごとぞこれ
| kaminaduki sigure Furiwokeru nara no Fa no na ni oFu miya no Furugoto zo kore |
In the Godless Month Drizzle falls upon The leaves of Nara oak! The palace bearing that name Produced these ancient words! |
Fun’ya no Arisue
文屋有季