Left (Win).
お泊瀬や峰のときは木吹しほり嵐にくもる雪の山本
ohatsuse ya
mine no tokiwagi
fukishiori
arashi ni kumoru
yuki no yamamoto |
Upon Ohatsuse
Peak, the evergreens
Bow down before
The storm wind: clouds of
Snow around the mountain’s foot. |
99
Right
白妙にたなびく雲を吹きまぜて雪にあまぎる峰の松風
shirotae ni
tanabiku kumo o
fukimazete
yuki ni amagiru
mine no matsukaze |
A cloth of white
The streaming clouds
Are blown together with
The snow, shrouding the sky,
As zephyrs brush the peak-bound pines. |
100
Left.
長月の月の有明の時雨ゆへ明日の紅葉の色もうらめし
nagatsuki no
tsuki no ariake no
shigure yue
asu no momiji no
iro mo urameshi |
Late in autumn, when
The moon lingers in the sky at dawn,
From the drizzle,
In the morning scarlet leaves’
Hue is deepened—how I envy them! |
75
Right (Win)
時わかぬ浪さへ色に泉河はゝそのもりにあらし吹らし
toki wakanu
nami sae iro ni
izumigawa
hahaso no mori ni
arashi fukurashi |
The constant
Current: even it has broken out in hues anew;
By Izumi River
Through the oak forest has
The storm wind blown, no doubt! |
76
Left.
秋風にそよぐ田の面のいねがてにまつ明方の初雁の聲
aki kaze ni
soyogu ta no mo no
ine ga te ni
matsu akekata no
hatsukari no koe |
The autumn wind
Rustles o’er the fields
Of rice; sleepless
I await the dawn’s
First goose-call. |
65
Right (Win)
生駒山あらしも秋の色に吹手染の糸のよるぞかなしき
ikoma yama
arashi mo aki no
iro ni fuku
tezome no ito no
yoru zo kanashiki |
Upon Ikoma Mountain
The storm wind with autumn’s longing
Hues is gusting;
Hand-dyed thread
Twining in the night is sad, indeed. |
66
Left (Tie).
名取河春の日數は顯て花にぞしづむせゞの埋木
natorigawa
haru no hi kazu wa
arawarete
hana ni zo shizumu
seze no mumoregi |
The river Natori:
The days of spring have reached
Their span, and
Blossom swamps
The drowned tree upon the shoals. |
23
Right
名もしるし峰のあらしも雪とふる山櫻戸のあけぼのゝ空
na mo shirushi
mine no arashi mo
yuki to furu
yamasakurado no
akebono no sora |
It’s all in the name:
Storm winds from the peak
Scatter a snowstorm of blossom;
My mountain cherry door
Open upon a dawning sky. |
24
Bitter on hearing that the Empress’ Lady Saishō was spending all her time serving her master.
風早み嵐の山の紅葉ばもしもにはとまるものとこそ聞け
kaze hayami
arasi no yama no
momidiba mo
simo ni Fa tomaru
mono to koso kike |
The winds blow harsh
Upon Arashi mountain, so
Scarlet leaves, though
Below they stay,
I’ve heard, do… |
On cherry blossom.
鸛の巣に嵐の外のさくら哉
kō no su ni
arashi no hoka no
sakura kana |
The storks’ nest lies
Untouched by storm winds, but what
Of cherry blossom… |
(1689)
From a hundred poem sequence.
くるゝまもまつべきよかはあだしのゝすゑばのつゆに嵐たつ也
kururu ma mo
matsubeki yo ka wa
adashino no
sueba no tsuyu ni
arashi tatsu nari |
‘Til darkness falls,
Can this world await?
At Adashino
Upon the dew-dropped leaf tips,
The storm wind has started blowing. |
Princess Shokushi
式子内親王
On autumn leaves in a hundred poem sequence of reminiscences.
嵐ふくみねのもみぢの日にそへてもろくなりゆくわが涙哉
arashi fuku
mine no momiji no
hi ni soete
moroku nariyuku
wa ga namida kana |
As the storm winds rage
On the peaks the leaves turn
With the passing days
How much easier it is to shed
My tears. |
Master of the Dowager Empress Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成
When he composed a hundred poem sequence for the Monk Saigyō and others.
あぢきなくつらきあらしの聲もうしなどゆふぐれにまちならひけん
ajikinaku
tsuraki arashi no
koe mo ushi
nado yūgure ni
machi naraiken |
’Tis pointless-
The bitter storm wind’s
Roar, too, is cruel;
Why, in the evenings,
Am I so used to waiting? |
Sada’ie
定家
Around the Ninth Month, when he was in Minase for a time: sent by return to someone who said their tears fell like the autumn leaves on Mt. Arashi.
もみぢばをさこそあらしのはらふらめこの山本も雨とふるなり
momijiba o
sa koso arashi no
haraurame
kono yamamoto mo
ame to furu nari |
Those autumn leaves
From Arashi must, indeed,
Have been driven:
For in these foothills, too,
They fall as does the rain! |
Provisional Middle Councillor [Fujiwara no] Kintsune (1171 – 1244)
'Simply moving and elegant'