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SShKKS XIII: 1329

On ‘Love and Travel’ at the Sumiyoshi Shrine Poetry Contest in Jōgen 2 [1209].

いかにせんせめては旅の空だのめむなしくまたん夕暮もがな

ika ni sen
semete wa tabi no
soradanome
munashiku matan
yūgure mogana
O, what am I to do?
At least, it’s due to travel’s
Unreliable skies that
Emptily I would wait
This evening—if only that were so!

Iehira, Junior Third Rank
従三位家衡

SshKKS XIII: 1270

On the conception of love on first meeting, from a hundred poem sequence at the residence of the Gohosshōji Lay Priest and Former Regent and Chancellor [Fujiwara no Tadamichi].

たのまずはしかまのかちの色をみよあひそめてこそふかくなるなれ

tanomazu wa
shikama no kachi no
iro o miyo
ai somete koso
fukaku narunare
Unasked,
Shikama’s fresh dyed
Hues behold!
Our first meeting’s indigo dyes
Grow ever deeper!

Master of the Dowager Empress Household Office, Toshinari