わが恋はあまのはらとぶあしたづの雲ゐにのみや鳴きわたりなん
wa ga koi wa
ama no hara tobu
ashitazu no
kumoi ni nomi ya
nakiwatarinan | My love is as
Across the plains of Heaven soaring
Cranes—is it
Simply from within the clouds that
They cry on? |
435
久かたのあまとぶ雲の風をいたみ我はしかおもふいもにしあはねば
hisakata no
ama tobu kumo no
kaze o itami
ware wa shika omou
imo ni shi awaneba | Across the eternal
Heavens fly the clouds
With the winds suffering
I feel just like that
For my darling I cannot meet… |
433
Composed when she had gone to attend the Enlightenment Lecture at the Unrin’in [Cloud Wood Temple] around the Fifth Month.
むらさきの雲の林をみわたせばのりにあふちの花さきにけり
murasaki no
kumo no hayashi o
miwataseba
nori ni ōchi no
hana sakinikeri | When on violet
Clouds throughout the woods
Do I turn my gaze, then
The dharma do I encounter in the chinaberry’s
Flowering blossoms. |
Higo
月影のそれかあらぬかかげろふのほのかにみえて雲がくれにし
tsukikage no
sore ka aranu ka
kagerō no
honoka ni miete
kumogakurenishi | Was it the moonlight,
Or was it not?
As through haze
Faintly glimpsed, and
Hidden amongst the clouds. |
428
ゆふづくよおぼつかなきを雲間よりほのかにみえしそれかあらぬか
yūzukuyo
obotsukanaki o
kumoi yori
honoka ni mieshi
sore ka aranu ka | On a moonlit night
Idly,
From between the clouds
Faintly did I glimpse her, but
Was it her, or was it not? |
427
逢ふ事を雲ゐのよそにゆくかりのとほざかればや声もきこえぬ
au koto o
kumoi no yoso ni
yuku kari no
tōzakareba ya
koe mo kikoenu | A meeting with her—
Beyond the clouds
Depart the geese,
Growing ever distant, so
Their voices fade away—just so… |
418
かづらきや雲をこだかみ雪しろしあはれとぞ思ふ年の暮れぬる
kazuragi ya
kumo o kodakami
yuki shiroshi
aware to zo omou
toshi no kurenuru | In Kazuragi,
In clouds upon the trees, so tall,
White is the snow—
How sad it is, I feel,
As the year draws to its end. |
402
まきの戸を朝あけの雲の衣手に雪を吹きまく山おろしの風
maki no to o
asa’ake no kumo no
koromode ni
yuki o fukimaku
yama’oroshi no kaze | My door of cedarwood
I open with the morning, and from the clouds
Onto my sleeves
Snow is blown, whipped by
The wild wind off the moutains. |
371
久かたのあま雲あへりかづらきやたかまの山はみ雪ふるらし
hisakata no
amagumo aeri
kazuraki ya
takama no yama wa
miyuki fururashi | The eternal
Heaven-spanning clouds merge
Above Kazuraki, where
Upon Mount Takama
Fair snows seem to be falling. |
368
みわたせば雲ゐはるかに雪しろしふじの高ねの明ぼのの空
miwataseba
kumoi haruka ni
yuki shiroshi
fuji no takane no
akebono no sora | When I gaze across,
Through the distant clouds
How white is the snow
On the high peak of Fuji
In the dawning sky. |
366
'Simply moving and elegant'
