Love in the middle of the day.
契りおきしほどは近くやなりぬらむしをれにけりな朝顔の花
| tigiri okisi Fodo Fa tikaku ya narinuramu siworenikeri na asagaFo no Fana |
Does our promised Time seem to Draw near? All drooping are The morning glory blooms… |
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Eikyū hyakushu 250
九月の九日までに服乱る十日の菊の花びらけなむ
| nagatsuki no kokonuka made ni fuku midaru tōka no kiku no hana birakenamu |
For the Ninth Month’s Ninth day, Its garb disarrayed On the Tenth, the chrysanthemum Does surely open up its blooms! |
Minamoto no Kanemasa
源兼昌
Kokin rokujō I: 194
皆人の老いを忘るといふ菊は百年をやる花にそありける
| mina Fito no oi wo wasuru to iFu kiku Fa momotose wo yaru Fana ni zo arikeru |
Everyone, Their age will forget, they Say: for chrysanthemums A hundred years gift Have in their blooms! |
Kokin rokujō I: 193
菊の花露と置きゐていざ折らむ濡れなば袖の香こそ匂はめ
| kiku no Fana tuyu to okiwite iza oramu nurenaba sode no ka koso niFoFame |
For the chrysanthemum blooms’ Dewfall have I lain awake; Now, let’s pick them! For if I should damp my sleeves Their scent would linger there! |
Kokin rokujō I: 192
濡れ衣と人にいはすな菊の花齢延ぶとぞ我そぼちつる
| nureginu to Fito ni iFasu na kiku no Fana yoFaFi nobu to zo ware sobotituru |
That you have no effect – Give folk no cause to say it, O chrysanthemum blooms! Saying you’ll prolong my years I am drenched right through! |
Kokin rokujō I: 190
祈りつつなほ九月の菊の花いづれの秋か植て見ざらむ
| inoritutu naFo nagatuki no kiku no Fana idure no aki ka uwete mizaramu |
As we pray, The Ninth Month’s Chrysanthemum blooms: Will there ever be an autumn When they go unplanted? |
Ki no Tsurayuki
紀貫之
Kokin rokujō I: 188
九月の九日ごとに摘む菊の花もかひなく老いにけるかな
| nagatuki no kokonoka goto ni tumu kiku no Fana mo kaFinaku oinikeru kana |
On every Ninth Month’s Ninth day, The plucked chrysanthemum Blooms, too, pointlessly Do age! |
Hōō
ほうわう
Taikenmon’in horikawa-shū 11
咲きにけり苗代水に影見えて田中の里の山吹の花
| sakinikeri naFasiro midu ni kage miete tanaka no sato no yamabuki no Fana |
So, they have bloomed; Among the waters of the seedling beds Do I see the light; At the dwelling among the rice-fields Of the kerria blooms. |
Taikenmon’in Horikawa
待賢門院堀河
Kyūan hyakushu 938
薄霧のまかき籬の花の朝じめり秋は夕べと誰か言ひけむ
| usugiri no magaki no hana no asajimeri aki wa yūbe to tare ka iikemu |
Faintly misted On the rough fence, the blooms Are damp with morning; “But in autumn ‘tis the evening…” Who would tell them that? |
Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Fubokushō IV: 1119
龍田姫花の白木綿とりしでて今日や御室に風祭りする
| tatsutahime hana no shirayū torishidete kyō ya mimuro ni kasamatsurisuru |
The Princess of Tatsuta, With white mulberry blooms Is taken; Is today where She does dwell, A festival of wind? |
Kenshō