As a spring poem:
ふりつみしたかねのみゆきとけにけりきよたき河の水のしらなみ
furitsumishi
Deep-fallen upon
The Monk Saigyō
Topic unknown.
いはまとぢしこほりもけさはとけそめてこけのしたみづみちもとむらん
iwama tojishi
Stopping the cracks ‘tween the boulders,
The Monk Saigyō
Composed as a poem on blossom.
よしの山こぞのしほりのみちかへてまだ見ぬかたの花をたづねん
yoshino yama
O, Mount Yoshino!
The Monk Saigyō
Topic unknown.
よしの山さくらがえだにゆきちりて花をそげなるとしにもあるかな
yoshino yama
O, Mount Yoshino!
The Monk Saigyō
Topic unknown.
とめこかしむめさかりなるわがやどをうときも人はおりにこそよれ
tomekokashi
Come calling, please!
The Monk Saigyô
After he had left Mount Takano, he went to Futamigaura in the province of Ise and, hearing that the sacred mountain in the Grand Shrine was called the Mountain of the Divine Way, he composed this, feeling that Dainichi Nyorai had manifested there.
深くいりて神路の奧を尋ぬれば又うゑもなき峰のまつ風
Fukaku irite
If to the heights
The Monk En’i
Composed in the conception of the juryō section [of the Lotus Sutra].
鷲の山月を入りぬとみる人はくらきにまよふ心なりけり
wasi no yama
Upon the Mount of Eagles
The Monk En’i
After he had left the world, he saw blossom by the Shira River and composed:
散るを見で歸る心やさくら花むかしに變るしるしなるらん
tiru wo mide
Falling flowers I’d not see –
The Monk En’i
Composed in the conception of Love before the moon.
なげゝとて月やはものを思はするかこち顏なる我涙かな
nageke tote
What grieves me so –
The Monk En’i
Topic unknown.
もの思へどもかゝらぬ人もあるものをあはれなりける身の契りかな
mono’omoFedomo
Deep in thoughts of love
The Monk En’i
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