A warbler in the rain.
鶯のはるさめざめとなきゐたるたけのしづくやなみだなるらん
| uguisu no harusamezame to naki’itaru take no shizuku ya namida naruran | A warbler In a spring shower lets fall His cries: Are the droplets on the bamboo His tears, perhaps?[i] |
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[i] See: Warbler [uguhisu]. 心から花のしづくにそほちつつうくひずとのみ鳥のなくらむ kokoro kara / hana no shizuku ni / sōchitsutsu / uku hizu to nomi / tori no nakuramu ‘Even his heart / By droplets from the blossoms / Is ever drenched: / Sadly simply never dry, / Does the bird seem to cry…’ Lord Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (Kokinshū X: 422); and: When he was staying somewhere with bamboo before his bedroom. 竹ちかくよどこねはせじ鶯のなく声きけばあさいせられず take chikaku / yodoko ne wa seji / uguisu no / naku koe kikeba / asa irarezu ‘Close by the bamboo / My bed, but sleep eludes me, for / When the warbler’s / Crying song I hear / I cannot doze away the morning.’ Lord Fujiwara no Korehira (Gosenshū II: 48)