My reply.
こきかぎりことはつみいれてなでしこのうへなるそでのいろぞみせまし
koki kagiri There’s a limit to the depth,
Ise
From the Master of the Right Capital Office, when the pinks were blooming in profusion.
我がそでにうつらばうつれてもやまずつみやいれましなでしこのはな
wa ga sode ni If, to my sleeves
Minamoto no Muneyuki
Around the last day of the Fifth Month, when she had been lying awake all night, filled with gloomy thoughts.
限りあればこよひにつきぬさみだれも身をしるあめはいつかをやまん
kagiri areba All things have an end, so
Lady Aki, in service to the Empress Ikuhōmon’in
Attached to some lilac daphne.
花のいろのこきをみすとてこきたるをおろかに人はおもふらんやぞ
Fana no iro no ‘The blossom’s hues’
Lilac Daphne.
一重きるきぬもうきまでいかにひのはなはだしくも照増るらむ
hitoe kiru A single layer have I donned;
Murata Harumi (1746-1811)|
Composed on Mount Tsukuba.
やまたかみふりくるゆきをむめのはなちりかもくるとおもひけるかな
yama takami Upon the mountain’s heights
In a fifty-poem sequence…
たが袖のにほひをかりて梅の花人のとがむる香にはさくら ん
ta ga sode noka ni wa sakura n From whose sleeves
Prince Munetaka (1242-1274)
Poems composed for a folding screen for the Minister of the Right in Jōhei 7 [937]: Women gazing at the scarlet plum blossom they had picked beneath the trees.
雪とのみあやまたれつつ梅花くれなゐにさへかよひけるかな
yuki to nomi For the snow alone,
Love and Waterfalls
山河の滝ははやくもおもほえず恋の涙ぞおちまさりける
yamakawa no A mountain river’s
Kinoshita Takafumi
On seeing autumn leaves being scattered about during a shower.
おほぞらに木ずゑや心あはすらんしぐれとともにこのはふりしく
ōzora ni In the broad skies above
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