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かくをしむあきにしあはばをみなへしうつろふことはわすれやはせぬ
kaku oshimu aki ni shi awaba ominaeshi utsurou koto wa wasure ya wa senu If feeling such regret
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ながきよにたれたのめけむをみなへしひとまつむしのえだごとになく
nagaki yo ni tare tanomekemu ominaeshi hito matsumushi no edagoto ni naku On a long, long night
12[1]
[1] Shinsen man’y ōshū 536; Fubokushō 4231
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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
Ariwara no Muneyana
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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
95
Topic unknown.
あき風のふきくるよひはきりぎりす草のねごとにこゑみだれけり[1]
akikaze no fukikuru yoi wa kirigirisu kusa no ne goto ni koe midarekeri The autumn wind
Anonymous
[1] This poem appears in the ‘Poetry Contest held at Prince Koresada’s House’ (Koresada shinnō-ke uta’awase (42 ).
あきのよにたれをまつとかひぐらしのゆふぐれごとになきまさるらん
aki no yo ni tare o matsu to ka higurashi no yūgure goto ni nakimasaruran On an autumn night
41
あき風のふきくるよひはきりぎりす草のねごとにこゑみだれけり[1]
akikaze no fukikuru yoi wa kirigirisu kusa no ne goto ni koe midarekeri The autumn wind
42
[1] This poem was included in Gosenshū (V: 257 ).
A poem from the Poetry Contest held by the Empress Dowager during the reign of the Kanpyō emperor.
秋風にほころびぬらし藤袴つづりさせてふきりぎりすなく
akikaze ni With the autumn breeze[1]
Ariwara no Muneyana
[1] This poem is composed around a dual wordplay, which I have not been able to closely replicate in the translation. Hokorobu is simultaneously both ‘bloom fully’ and ‘thread (a needle)’ while tsuzuru is both ‘sew together’ and an onomatopoeic representation of the sound that a cricket makes.
Crickets 蛬
ねくたれのかみの中なるきりぎりすかしかましくもみだれ鳴くかな
nekutare no Tangled from sleep
Daishin
Crickets 蛬
露むすぶ草の枕のほどなきに所えてなくきりぎりすかな
tsuyu musubu Dripping with dew,
Higo
Crickets 蛬
秋の野にやどりをすればきりぎりすかたしく袖の下に鳴くなり
aki no no ni When on the plains in autumn
Kanemasa
Crickets 蛬
ひとりすむよもぎが宿に秋きてはきりぎりすこそ友に鳴きけれ
hitori sumu Living all alone
Tadafusa
Crickets 蛬
なきかへせ秋をおくるなきりぎりすくれなば声のよわるのみかは
nakikawase Crying all together
Toshiyori
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