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
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’
My reply:
君にとし思ひかくれば鶯のはなのくしげもをしまざりけり
kimi ni to si For my Lady did
Ise
When the Crown Prince Lady of the Bedchamber held a box match, and I said I would place some budding scarlet plum in my box, Her Majesty, Empress Dowager stated:
みづのえのかたみとおもへどうぐひすの花のくしげはあけてだにみず
midu no e no By the waters’ edge
白雲の棚引きかかる深山には漏る月影もよそにこそ見れ
sirakumo no Clouds of white
While saying this, the night lightens and the man:
あふことのあはぬ夜ながら明けぬれば我こそかへれ心やはゆく
aFu koto no
With a meeting
Upon hearing this, as the snow falls:
かへるさの道ゆくべくもおもほえずこほりて雪の降りしまされば
kaFeru sa no
Upon my homeward
In the Twelfth Month, the man comes. As her father hears he is trying to meet her and will not allow it, he leaves, and the woman:
夜こゆとたれか告げけむ逢坂の關かたむめりはやく歸りね
yoru koyu to
That you would come tonight
Seeing how he seems to be suffering, she calls him to her curtains, and speaks with him:
ふりとげぬしぐればかりにやまびこの聲をかたみに聞きかはすかな
Furitogenu
The unceasing
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