A New Year’s Day poem, composed on the Hie shrine.
さゞなみやしがのはまゝつふりにけりたがよにひけるねの日なるらん
| sazanami ya shiga no hamamatsu furinikeri ta ga yo ni hikeru ne no hi naruran |
Where the wavelets strike On Shiga beach the pine trees Have grown old; Whose reign might have seen you plucked On a new year’s day, I wonder. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成
Composed on fresh greens, when he composed a hundred poem sequence of reminiscences.
さわにおふるわかなならねどいたづらにとしをつむにもそではぬれけり
| sawa ni ouru wakana naranedo itazura ni toshi o tsumu ni mo sode wa nurekeri |
Growing in the marshes As fresh greens do, they are not, yet With the pointless Gathering of years My sleeves are soaked. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成
When he composed a hundred poem sequence of reminiscences, he composed this as a poem on deer.
世中よ道こそなけれ思ひ入る山のをくにも鹿ぞ鳴くなる
| yo no naka yo miti koso nakere omoFi’iru yama no woku ni mo sika zo naku naru |
O, the world of men! There’s no escape, indeed, I feel! In the mountains’ heart A stag calls out. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
藤原俊成
Composed as a poem in the conception of the beginning of Love, when a hundred poem sequence was composed at the house of Fujiwara no Kanezane.
照射する端山が裾のした露や入るより袖のかくしほるらん
| tomosi suru Fa yama ga suso no sita tuyu ya iru yori sode no kaku siForuran |
Lantern-bearing, In the mountains’ hem, from The dew below – Since he entered, are his sleeves As drenched as mine, I wonder? |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
藤原俊成
When His Majesty requested a hundred poem sequence, he composed this as an ice poem.
月さゆる氷のうへに霰ふりこゝろくだくるたまがはの里
| tuki sayuru koFori no uFe ni arare Furi kokoro kudakuru tamagaFa no sato |
The moon so bright Upon the ice Hail falls Breaking my heart In my Tama River home. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
藤原俊成
Composed as an Autumn poem, when he presented a hundred-poem sequence.
夕されば野べの秋風身にしみて鶉なくなりふかぐさの里
| yuFu sareba nobe no aki kaze mi ni simite udura naku nari Fukakusa no sato |
When the evening comes The Autumn wing across the fields Pierces my breast, and I hear the quails crying In this Fukakusa home. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
藤原俊成