When Spring Arrives in the Old Year 旧年立春
年のうちに春はたちぬとうちつけに雪げの雲を霞とぞみる
| toshi no uchi ni haru wa tachinu to uchitsuke ni yukige no kumo o kasumi to zo miru | Within the old year Spring has come to call and Instantly The snow-scented clouds Seem haze before my eyes! |
Daishin
Preparing Tribute 貢調
いやしきや民のいとなく道もせにつきせず運ぶみつぎ物かな
| iyashiki ya tami no itonaku michi mo se ni tsukisezu hakobu mitsukimono kana | How humble are The folk busily On every single road Ceaselessly transporting Their tributes! |
Daishin
Mandarin Ducks 鴛鴦
夜とともにおもふことなきをし鳥やかげとならびの池にすむらん
| yo to tomo ni omou koto naki oshidori ya kage to narabi no ike ni sumuran | With night’s fall Heedlessly Does the mandarin Together with his reflection Seek to dwell upon the pond? |
Daishin
Kindling 薪
しづのをがこりつむ薪我かくとたれゆゑもゆるおもひなるらん
| shizu no o ga koritsumu takigi ware kaku to tare yue moyuru omoi naruran | A mountain man Sets light to kindling; I am just so: For whose sake do I burn With passion’s fire? |
Daishin
Gosechi 五節
くもりなき豊のあかりにみつるかなあまつ乙女のまひのすがたを
| kumorinaki toyo no akari ni mitsuru kana amatsu otome no mai no sugata o | Cloudless is The Festival of New Grain, So perfect Are the heavenly maidens’ Dancing forms! |
Daishin
First Snow 初雪
めもはるに花かとぞみるしもがれの草木もわかずふれる初皆
| me mo haru ni hana ka to zo miru shimogare no kusaki mo wakazu fureru hatsuyuki | Before my eyes, do spring In bloom I see? Frost-burned Trees and grasses both, I cannot tell Beneath the first snow fallen. |
Daishin
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 kami no uchi naru kirigirisu kashikamashiku mo midare naku kana | Tangled from sleep From within my hair does A cricket Clamorously Confused cry out! |
Daishin
Bell Crickets 鈴虫
あさぢふに鳴くすず虫の声きけばふりにしかたぞいとど恋しき
| asajū ni naku suzumushi no koe kikeba furinishi kata zo itodo koishiki | Among the cogon grass Singing, are the bell crickets; Hearing their song The ways of days long gone Seem all the more dear… |
Daishin
Pine Crickets 松虫
ひとりゐてなかむる秋の夕くればおなじ心に松虫ぞなく
| hitori ite nagamuru aki no yū kureba onaji kokoro ni matsumushi zo naku | All alone, and Gazing out on an autumn Evening falling, The same feeling fills The pine crickets’ cries. |
Daishin
Autumn Mountains 秋山
をの山に朝たつ鹿も声たてて秋のあはれはしのばざりけり
| onoyama ni asa tatsu shika mo koe tatete aki no aware wa shinobazarikeri | In Onoyama Even the stags rising in the morn Cry out; The sorrows of autumn I would not recall. |
Daishin