Tag Archives: autumn wind

Hon’in sadaijin-ke uta’awase 03

Karukaya

Left

しらつゆにいろかはりゆくかるかやのほにいでてあきをあはれとぞ思ふ

shiratsuyu ni
iro kawariyuku
karukaya no
ho ni idete aki o
aware to zo omou
With silver dewfall
The hues do change
Of the pampas grass—
Fronds emerge and autumn’s
Sorrow I keenly feel.

5

Right

よそめにはこともやすらにかるかやをなど秋風のふきみだるらん

yosome ni wa
koto mo yasura ni
karukaya o
nado akikaze no
fukimidaruran
When glanced at
So peaceful is
The pampas grass, so
Why might the autumn wind
Blow it to such confusion?

6

Teishi-in ominaeshi uta’awase 19

なにしおへばあはれとおもふををみなへしたれをうしとかまだきうつろふ

na ni shi oeba
aware to omou o
ominaeshi
tare o ushi to ka
madaki utsurou
Bearing such a name,
She is dear, indeed, I feel, that
Maidenflower, but
Who is it that she does despise so,
That she fades so swiftly?

Mareyo
37

ちるはるをみなへしはなはあき風のふかむことをばくるしからじな

chiru haru o
mina heshi hana wa
akikaze no
fukamu koto oba
kurushikaraji na
Scattered in springtime
Have all the blossoms, so
When the autumn wind
Begins to blow
She suffers not, I think…

Motoyuki
38

Teishi-in ominaeshi uta’awase 05

Left

あさぎりとのべにむれたるをみなへしあきをすぐさずいひもとめなん

asagiri to
nobe ni muretaru
ominaeshi
aki o sugusazu
ii mo tomenan
Amid the morning mists
Upon the meadow clusters
A maidenflower
I’ll not let autumn pass by
Without a word to hold her here.

9

Right

あきかぜのふきそめしよりをみなへしいろふかくのみみゆるのべかな

akikaze no
fukisomeshi yori
ominaeshi
iro fukaku nomi
miyuru nobe kana
Since the autumn wind
First began to blow,
The maidenflowers’
Hues have simply deepened,
Glimpsed upon the meadows!

10

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 54

Left

雁がねにおどろく秋のよを寒み虫のおりだす衣をぞきる

kari ga ne ni
odoroku aki no
yo o samumi
mushi no oridasu
koromo o zo kiru
The goose cries are
Startling on an autumn
Night so chill
The insects’ woven
Robes I will put on!

106[1]

Right

あき風はたがたむけとか紅葉ばをぬさにきりつつ吹きちらすらん

akikaze wa
ta ga tamuke to ka
momijiba o
nusa ni kiritsutsu
fukichirasuran
The autumn wind:
To whom does it make its offering
Of scarlet leaves?
Ever cutting them to streamers, and
Seeming to scatter them with its gusts…

107


[1] Fubokushō XII: 4881

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 53

Left

はなすすきそよともすれば秋風の吹くかとぞきくひとり寝る夜は

hanasusuki
soyo tomo sureba
akikaze no
fuku ka to zo kiku
hitori nuru yo wa
When the silver grass fronds
Rustle all together,
I wonder if ‘tis our autumn wind
Blowing that I hear,
Tonight, as I sleep alone…

104[1]

Right

音にきく花見にくれば秋の野のみちさまだけにたちわたりつつ

oto ni kiku
hana mi ni kureba
aki no no no
michisamadake ni
tachiwataritsutsu
I have heard of
These blooms I have come to see, so
The autumn meadows
Blocking my way
Will I ever rise to cross…

105


[1] Gosenshū VII: 353

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 48

Left

あき風にほころびぬらむ藤ばかまつづりさせてふきりぎりす鳴く

akikaze ni
hokorobinuramu
fujibakama
tsuzurisase chō
kirigirisu naku
The autumn wind
Seems to have burst the buds of
The asters
‘Sew them back together!’ say
The crickets’ cries.

Ariwara no Muneyana
94

Right

秋の夜のあめときこえて降りつるは風に散りつる紅葉なりけり

aki no yo no
ame to kikoete
furitsuru wa
kaze ni chiritsuru
momiji narikeri
On an autumn night
The sound of rain
Falling is
The wind scattered
Scarlet leaves.

95

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 40

Autumn Poems                   Twenty Rounds

Left

あき風に初雁がねぞ響くなるたが玉章をかけて来つらむ

akikaze ni
hatsukari ga ne zo
hibikunaru
ta ga tamazusa o
kaketekitsuramu
The autumn wind
With the first goose calls does
Echo
Whose jewelled missives
Have they come bearing, I wonder?

Tomonori

78

Right

浦ちかくたつ秋霧はもしほやく煙とのみぞ見え渡りける

ura chikaku
tatsu akigiri wa
moshio yaku
keburi to nomi zo
miewatarikeru
Close by the bay
Rising autumn mist, as
Seaweed salt burning
Smoke simply
Appears everywhere.

79[1]


[1] Gosenshū VI: 273/Shinsen man’yōshū 325/Kokin rokujō I: 652

Koresada shinnō-ke uta’awase 31

あきかぜになみやたつらんあまのがはすぐるまもなくつきのながるる

akikaze ni
nami ya tatsuramu
ama no kawa
sukuru ma mo naku
tsuki no nagaruru
Might it be the autumn wind that
Has raised the waves upon
The River of Heaven?
There’s no space to pass for
The moon, flowing by…

61

つき見ればちぢにものこそかなしけれ我がみひとつのあきにはあらねど

tsuki mireba
chiji ni mono koso
kanashikere
wa ga mi hitotsu no
aki ni wa aranedo
When I gaze upon the moon
So many are my sources of
Sadness;
Though, it is not I, alone, who
Is faced with autumn…

62

Koresada shinnō-ke uta’awase 23

あきかぜにすむよもぎふのかれゆけばこゑのことごとむしぞなくなる

akikaze ni
sumu yomogyū no
kareyukeba
koe no kotogoto
mushi zo nakunaru
With the autumn wind,
Their home, the mugwort,
Begins to wither, so
Every single
Insect cries out.

45

みるごとにあきにもあるかたつたひめもみぢそむとや山はきるらん[1]

miru goto ni
aki ni mo aru ka
tatsutahime
momiji somu to ya
yama wa kiruran
Each time I see her
Is it autumn?
Princess Tatsuta,
I wonder, are she dying scarlet leaves,
So that she may wear the mountains?

46


[1] This poem occurs in Kokin rokujō (648); and also in Tomonori-shū (27), suggesting that it may be by Ki no Tomonori.