From a folding screen to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Her Majesty, the Shichijô Empress.
すみの江のはまのまさごをふむたづはひさしきあとをとむるなりけり
suminoe no
On Suminoe
Ise
On hearing a cuckoo, the year after a Prince to whom she had given birth had died.
しでの山越えて來つらん郭公戀しき人の上語らなん
side no yama
The mount of death:
Ise
Topic unknown.
さもこそは逢ひ見むことのかたからめ忘れずとだに言ふ人のなき
samo koso Fa
It may be that
Ise
When snow was falling between the mountains.
あしひきの山ゐに降れる白雪はすれる衣の心地こそすれ
asiFiki no Leg-wearying
Ise
Her reply:
世の中はいさともいさや風の音は秋に秋そふ心地こそすれ
yo no naka Fa
Of this world of ours
Ise
Her reply:
夏蟲の知る知る迷思ひをば懲りぬ悲しと誰か見ざらん
natumusi no
The summer moths
Ise
In reply:
おぼろけの海人やはかづく伊勢の海の浪高き浦に生ふる見るめは
oborike no
Could such a mediocre
Ise
When someone whom she got to know had begun seeing her only rarely:
日をへても影に見ゆるは玉葛つらきながらも絶えぬなりけり
Fi wo Fete mo
As the days go by
Ise
Her reply:
我が宿とたのむ吉野に君し入らば同じかざしを插しこそはせめ
wa ga yado to
Here too,
Ise
When he didn’t know where she had gone, a man who wanted to get to know her again sent to her saying, ‘I’ve been worriedly enquiring about you for days-I thought you were dead!’
思ひ河絶えず流るゝ水の泡のうたがた人にあはで消えめや
omoFi kaFa
For love a river
Ise
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