かりがねはかへるみちにやまよふらんこしのなかやま霞へだてて
| kari ga ne wa kaeru michi ni ya mayouran koshi no naka yama kasumi hedatete | Might the goose cries mean That on their homeward path They have gone astray? In Koshi-no-Nakayama’s Interfering haze… |
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Kokin rokujō IV: 2014
Chūgū nyōbō uta’awase 4
Sen’yōden no nyōgo nadeshiko awase 04
This is a poem which was written on a poetry slip and attached to the diorama when it was presented to the young prince,[i] on the day following the match.
なでしこのはなさきそむる夏の野にけふひぐらしのこゑかきこゆる
| nadeshiko no hana sakisomuru natsu no no ni kyō higurashi no koe ka kikoyuru | The pinks In bloom have begun to be On the summer plains From today the sunset crickets’ Cries do I hear? |
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In reply from His Highness, the prince.[iii]
ひぐらしのなくもことわりなでしこのかひあるなつの野べとみゆれば
| higurashi no naku mo kotowari nadeshiko no kai aru natsu no nobe to miyureba | That the sunset crickets Should cry makes sense, for The pinks bring A point to the summer Meadows, or so it seems to me… |
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A further reply from within the Hall of Cool Purity.
みやぎのにけふさきそむるなでしこはならはぬいろに人やみるらむ
| miyagino ni kyō sakisomuru nadeshiko wa narawanu iro ni hito ya miruramu | On Miyagi Plain Today has begun to bloom A pink— Its extraordinary hue I wonder, will folk see? |
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[i] A reference to Imperial Prince Norihira 憲平, the future Emperor Reizei 冷泉 (950-1011; r. 967-969).
[ii] Anonymous (Fubokushō IX: 3461); (Nakatsukasa-shū 120)
[iii] Given that Norihira would have been only six years old when this match was held, it is most likely that this reply was penned in his stead by his mother, Fujiwara no Yasuko (Anshi) 藤原安子 (927-964).
[iv] This poem is included in Fubokushō (IX: 3469) attributed to the ‘Seiryōden Junior Consort’ (Seiryōden nyōgo 清涼殿女御), with the headnote ‘Poetry Match held by Junior Consort Yoshiko (Hōshi) in the Fifth Month, Tenryaku 10’. It is now generally believed that the Fubokushō attribution is erroneous, and this was, instead, composed by Emperor Murakami.
SZS V: 333
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
Kinkai wakashū 604
I sent this in parting to a court lady who had served me closely, when she said she was going to a distant province.
山とほみ雲ゐにかりのこえていなば我のみひとりねにやなかなん
| yama tōmi kumoi ni kari no koeteinaba ware nomi hitori ne ni ya nakanan | Distant the mountains, where Within the clouds, the geese Pass over—should you, too, then Will I, alone, simply Be left to sob out my cries?[i] |
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[i] See: 朝霞 蒙山乎 越而去者 吾波将恋奈 至于相日 asagasumi / tanabiku yama o / koete’inaba / are wa koimu na / awamu hi made ni ‘The morning haze / Trailed mountains / Should you pass beyond, then / Will I ever yearn for you / Until the day we meet once more…’ (Man’yōshū XII: 3188)
SKKS XI: 1031
On the conception of summer lover, when he held a poetry match at his house.
うつせみのなくねやよそにもりの露ほしあへぬ袖を人のとふまで
| utsusemi no naku ne ya yoso ni mori no tsuyu hoshiaenu sode o hito no tou made | A cicada shell of Cries, sobs distant as Dripping dewdrops in the forest— My sleeves never drying Until folk ask me why.. |
The Regent and Grand Minister
Nishinomiya uta’awase 08
Round Eight
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風さむみゆふかげ草にかくろへてはたおる虫の声聞ゆなり
| kaze samumi yūkage kusa ni kakuroete hataorumushi no koe kikoyu nari | Chill the wind Upon the evening grasses, from Whence, concealed, The crickets’ Cries I hear. |
Chikafusa
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誰がためとあやめも見えぬ夕ざれにはたおる虫の声聞ゆらん
| ta ga tame to ayame mo mienu yūzare ni hataorumushi no koe kikoyuran | For whose sake Amidst the gloam Of eventide, might The crickets’ Cries I hear? |
Lady Hȳoe
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At present, ‘Amidst the gloam / Of eventide’ appears to have a bit more conception than ‘the evening grasses, from / Whence, concealed, / The crickets’.
Yōzei’in miko futari uta’awase 11
Partings at Dawn
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ひとしれぬわがみとおもへばあかつきのとりとともにやなきてかへらん
| hito shirenu wa ga mi to omoeba akatsuki no tori to tomo ni ya nakite kaeran | No one knew Of my sorry state, I thought, so With the dawn Birds’ chorus should I, Sobbing, make my way home? |
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Right
ひとしれずあかでわかるるあかつきにうちなきそふるをしのこゑかな
| hito shirezu akade wakaruru akatsuki ni uchinaki souru oshi no koe kana | No one knows How unsatisfied I am to part With the dawn Sobs overlaying The cries of the mandarin ducks! |
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