Topic unknown.
夏虫をなにかいひけむ心から我も思ひにもえぬへらなり
| natumusi o nani ka iFikemu kokoro kara ware mo omoFi ni moenuberanari | About the summer insects What is there to say? From deep within my heart I, too, with fires of passion Can only burn! |
Mitsune
Category Archives: Kokinshū
KKS XI: 544
Topic unknown.
夏虫の身をいたづらになすこともひとつ思ひによりてなりけり
| natumusi no mi wo itadura ni nasu koto mo Fitotu omoFi ni yorite narikeri | Just as the summer insects Heedlessly their bodies Treat, So I, in the flame of a single passion Do… |
Anonymous
KKS XIV: 690
Topic unknown.
君やこむ我やゆかむのいさよひにまきのいたどもささずねにけり
| kimi ya komu ware ya yukamu no isayoFi ni maki no itado mo sasazu nenikeri | Will you come, or Should I go? Caught in hesitation, My door of cedar boards Unbarred, do I fall asleep. |
Anonymous
KKS I: 31
Composed on returning geese.
はるかすみたつを見すててゆくかりは花なきさとにすみやならへる
| Faru kasumi tatu wo misutete yuku kari Fa Fana naki sato ni sumi ya naraeru | Spring hazes Rising do they ignore – Are the departing geese In dwellings without blossom Accustomed to reside? |
Ise
伊勢
KKS XVII: 908
Topic unknown.
かくしつつ世をやつくさむ高砂のをのへにたてる松ならなくに
| kakusitutu yo wo ya tukusamu takasago no wonoFe ni tateru matu naranaku ni | Thus, I wonder Will my life come to an end? For on Takasago’s Heights standing A pine tree I am not … |
Anonymous
KKS I: 38
Breaking off a branch of plum blossom, he sent it to a certain person.
君ならで誰にかみせん梅花色をも香をも知る人ぞ知る
| kimi narade tare ni ka misen mume no Fana iro wo mo ka wo mo siru Fito zo siru | If not to you Then to whom should I present Plum blossoms? For their shades and their scent both, It is you who know them best of all… |
Tomonori
KKS XIX: 1004
An ancient-styled poem to supplement a long poem.
君が世に相坂山の岩清水木隠れたりと思ける哉
| kimi ga yo ni aFusakayama no iFasimidu kogakuretari to omoFikeru kana |
Your Majesty’s reign Is welcome so, as on the mount of Meeting Hill, Spring water from the crags Is hidden in the trees, thus I am I sunk in thought! |
Mibu no Tadamine
KKS I: 12
A poem from the Poetry Competition held in the reign of the Kanpyō Empress.
谷風にとくる氷のひまごとに打いづる波や春のはつ花
| tanikaze ni tokuru koFori no Fimagoto ni uti’iduru nami ya Faru no FatuFana |
In the valley’s breezes Does melt the ice, and From every crack Do burst waves – are these The first blooms of spring? |
Minamoto no Masazumi
源当純
KKS I: 18
Topic unknown.
春日野の飛火野野守いでゝ見よ今幾日ありて若菜摘みてん
| kasugano no tobuFino nomori idete miyo ima ikuFi arite wakana tumiten |
On Kasuga Plain, O, warder of Tobuhi Plain, Go out and see! How many days must pass ’til we may pick fresh herbs… |
Anonymous
KKS VIII: 375
Topic unknown.
唐衣たつ日はきかじ朝露のおきてしゆけはけぬへきものを
| karagoromo tatu Fi Fa kikazi asatuyu no okitesi yuke Fa kenubeki mono wo |
A Cathay robe Sewn – that you leave today I had not heard, so As the morning dew Falls and is gone Shall I vanish, too… |
Anonymous