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 aya mataretsutsu mume no hana kurenai ni sae kayoikeru kana | For the snow alone, O, have we ever waited, while The plum blossom Simply in scarlet Has scattered back and forth. |
[One of] eight poems composed for painting of folk sleeping beneath the cherry blossoms on a folding screen in the palace of the Heir Apparent, in the Fouth Month, Engi 18 [May, 918].
かつみつつあかずとおもふに桜花散りなむ後ぞかねて恋しき
| katsu mitsutsu akazu to omofu ni sakurabana chirinamu nochi zo kanete koishiki | Ever did I once gaze on you, and Feel that never would I get my fill, O, cherry blossoms, But now you are scattered I long for you as before… |
Ki no Tsurayuki
Composed on the night when coming-of-age ceremonies were held for the son and daughter of the Captain of the Outer Palace Guards, in the Twelfth Month, Shōhei 5 [935].
大原やをしほの山の小松原はやこだかかれ千世のかげみん
| ōhara ya oshio no yama no komatsubara haya kodaka kare chiyo no kage min | In Ōhara On Oshio Mountain Among the young pine groves Fly swiftly, fledgling hawk, For you will see the light of a thousand generations! |
On an old woman wiping her face with chrysanthemum dew on the ninth day of the Ninth Month.
けふまでに我をおもへば菊の上の露は千年の玉にざりける
| kyō made ni ware o omoeba kiku no ue no tsuyu wa chitose no tama nizarikeru | Up until this day Have you thought of me, so Upon the chrysanthemums These dewdrops, thousand year Jewels do not seem to be. |
Ki no Tsurayuki