ほととぎすまつよながらのさみだれにしげきあやめのねにぞ鳴きぬる
| hototogisu matsu yo nagara no samidare ni shigeki ayame no ne ni zo nakunaru | While the cuckoo I await one night In a summer shower, Lush as sweet-flag Roots grow my sobbing cries! |
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あし引の山郭公けふとてやあやめの草のねにたててなく
| asiFiki no yamaFototogisu keFu tote ya ayame no kusa no ne ni tatete naku | Leg wearying, The mountain cuckoo, Knowing today, perhaps, On the sweet-flag Roots does perch and sing. |
A composition by the Engi Emperor [Daigo]
Eikyū hyakushu 692
Sanekata Shū 286
Sanekata Shū 285
By the Major Captain, when the Kōshin Rite fell upon the fifth Day of the Fifth Month.
夜のほどのつまとのみなるあやめをもまだ見ぬほどはいつかとぞ思ふ
| yo no Fodo no tuma to nomi naru ayame wo mo mada minu Fodo Fa ituka to zo omoFu |
All night long To the eaves wedded is A sweet-flag, Still unseen, But for how long, on this the fifth, I wonder? |
Sanekata Shū 284
In reply, the Major Captain:
祝ふなる岩のあやめも今日よりは千代のはじめに引きはじむべき
| iFaFu naru iFa no ayame mo keFu yori Fa tiyo no Fazime ni FikiFazimubeki |
All good things, I pray, for This rock-top sweet flag: From this day forth Let a thousand years of fortune Begin to flow. |
Sanekata Shū 283
When the Imperial Consort from the Koichijō Estate gave birth to her first son, the third night fell upon he fifth day of the Fifth Month.
岩の上のあやめや千代を重ぬらむ今日も五月の五日と思へば
| iFa no uFe no ayame ya tiyo wo kasanuramu keFu mo satuki no ituka to omoFeba |
Atop the rocks, The sweet-flag will a thousand years Endure, no doubt; For this day is the Fifth Month’s Fifth day, I’m sure. |
Sanekata Shū 258
On the fifth day of the month, when I had last met her on the second.
逢はぬまのみぎはに生ふるあやめ草ねのみなかるゝ昨日今日かな
| aFanu ma no migiFa ni oFuru ayamegusa ne nomi nakaruru kinoFu keFu kana |
Time is a marsh without you; Sprouting by the water’s edge The sweet flags, Roots washed—in sobs alone Did I pass yesterday, and today, too. |
Sanekata Shū 8
When the Kōshin rite was celebrated at the Koichijō mansion on the Fifth Day of the Fifth Month.
やどの上に山ほとゝぎすきなくなり今日はあやめの根のみと思ふに
| yado no uFe ni yama Fototogisu kinakunari keFu Fa ayame no ne nomi to omoFu |
Above the house A mountain cuckoo Has come to sing; On this day iris Roots, alone, would be there, I thought. |