Left (Tie)
いつもかくさびしきものかつの国のあし屋の里の秋の夕暮
| itsumo kaku sabishiki mono ka tsu no kuni no ashiya no sato no aki no yūgure | Are they always such Lonely things? In the land of Tsu, Reed-roofed villages On an autumn evening… |
Ietaka
497
Right
千代までや松をばともにおもふらんなほすゑ遠き君がよはひを
| chiyo made ya matsu oba tomo ni omouran nao suedōki kimi ga yowai o | Until a thousand ages pass Will you be together with the pine I wonder, for Even further into the future Stretches your age… |
Kunaikyō
498
Composed as an insect poem, when he composed a hundred poem sequence bewailing his sorry lot around the Hōen period [1135-1141].
さりともとおもふこころもむしのねもよわりはてぬる秋のくれかな
| saritomo to omoFu kokoro mo musi no ne mo yowariFatenuru aki no kure kana | That’s just how it is I thought within my heart, too, As the insects’ cries, too Weakened On an autumn evening! |
Master of the Dowager Empress Household Office Toshinari
When the autumn wind was blowing coldly, around the time his wife passed away.
思ひきや秋のよ風のさむけきにいもなきとこにひとりねむとは
| omoFiki ya aki no yokaze no samukeki ni imo naki toko ni Fitori nemu to Fa | How unexpected is The autumn night’s wind, So cold upon My bed where, without my darling I must sleep alone. |
Senior Assistant Governor General Kuni’akira
Original
もみぢばのちりかふこまのあまたあるをいづれにのりてあきをとどめむ
| momijiba no chirikau koma no amata aru o izure ni norite aki o todomemu | Scarlet leaves Scatter becoming mounts So many, but Which one should I ride To hold the autumn here? |
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Left
このはちるこのはのこまははやくともあきのかげにはいかがまさらむ
| ko no ha chiru ko no ha no koma wa hayaku tomo aki no kage ni wa ikaga masaramu | Leaves from the trees scatter, Leaves from the trees as a mount Are swift, yet Why is the autumn shade Still spectacular? |
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Right
ゆくあきをとどむるこまのおそければかぜこそさきにまづさそひけれ
| yuku aki o todomuru koma no osokereba kaze koso saki ni mazu sasoikere | Departing autumn To hold here was the mount Late arriving, so The wind got in ahead and Made the first invitation! |
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Original
ひとりぬるよをながづきのはなすすきそよともあきのかぜぞこたふる
| hitori nuru yo o nagazuki no hanasusuki soyo to mo aki no kaze zo kotauru | Sleeping alone, How long the night in the Longest Month: The blossoming silver grass Whispers, ‘So it is,’ with the autumn Wind replying! |
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Left
こたふともたのまざらなむはなすすきふくあきかぜのさだめなければ
| kotau tomo tanomazaranamu hanasusuki fuku akikaze no sadame nakereba | It may reply, but I would not have you trust, for The blossoming silver grass Blowing in the autumn wind is Fickle, indeed… |
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Right
そよとだにしりてこたふるかぜしあらばなにかながきよおもひわぶらん
| soyo to dani shirite kotauru kaze shi araba nanika nagaki yo omoiwaburan | If, ‘So it is,’ You know and reply, O, wind, then Why, all the long night through Do my thoughts torment me so? |
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Original
おとにのみききわたりつるあきのよのながさをひとりねてぞしりぬる
| oto ni nomi kikiwataritsuru aki no yo no nagasa o hitori nete zo shirinuru | By word alone Had I heard of Autumn nights’ Length, but alone and Sleeping did I understand it! |
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Left (Win)
あきのよのながきにそへてねざめつつつきせぬものをおもふころかな
| aki no yo no nagaki ni soete nezametsutsu tsukisenu mono o omou koro kana | To an autumn night’s Length, add Being awake, then Inexhaustible is the gloom Filling your thoughts! |
43
Right
ひとりねであかぬときにもあきのよのながきこころをしらぬものかは
| hitori nede akanu toki ni mo aki no yo no nagaki kokoro o shiranu mono ka wa | Sleepless alone When unsatisfied, too, An autumn night’s Length, the heart Knows well, doesn’t it! |
44
Original
ちらねどもかねてぞをしきもみぢばはけふをかぎりのいろとみつれば
| chiranedomo kanete zo oshiki momijiba wa kyō o kagiri no iro to mitsureba | They have yet to scatter, but Already, I regret The scarlet leaves, for Today is the utmost Extent of their hues… |
39
Left (Win)
あきふかきやまのもみぢもあるものをいまはのいろとおもはざらなむ
| aki fukaki yama no momiji mo aru mono o ima wa no iro to omowazaranamu | Though in the depths of autumn The mountains’ scarlet leaves Are fair, On their hues now I would not have you dwell… |
40
Right
かぎりなきいろはためしにをしけれどえだにもみぢはとまりげもなし
| kagiri naki iro wa tameshi ni oshikeredo eda ni momiji wa tomarige mo nashi | Limitlessly fair Hues have there been before, and Regrets, yet The scarlet leaves upon the boughs Show no signs of lingering… |
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