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Yōzei-in uta’awase (Engi jūsan-nen kugatsu kokonoka) 03

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なが月はこしひよりこそをしまるれいまはかぎりの秋とおもへば

nagatsuki wa
koshi hi yori koso
oshimaru
ima wa kagiri no
aki to omoeba
The longest month’s[i]
Days have passed, indeed, so
How I regret the thought that
Now the bounds of
Autumn have been reached…

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とふ人もなきものゆゑにあぢきなくいはんまもなくをしき秋かな

tou hito mo
naki mono yue ni
ajikinaku
iwan ma mo naku
oshiki aki kana
Visiting folk are
There none, so
In my tedium,
Needless to say,
How I regret the autumn!

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[i] Nagatsuki 長月 (‘longest month’) was an alternate name for the Ninth Month of the lunar calendar, which was the final month of the season of autumn.

Horikawa-in Enjo Awase 21

On the seventh day, saying that the Supernumerary Minor Captain was particularly skilled in such matters, a number of courtiers had composed poems in advance.

おもひ侘びしなんとなしに歎くらん後世にしもあはじものゆゑ

omoiwabi
shinan to nashi ni
nagekuran
nochi no yo ni shi mo
awaji mono yue
Sunk in sorrowful thought
I am not, yet
I seem to grieve, for
In the days to come
We’ll have no cause to meet…

Kunizane
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Is it really so dreadfully sad that something has long continued until now, without thinking the above?

Shiki koi sanshu uta’awase – Love

Love

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恋せじと御手洗川に御祓して神うけつらんとおもほゆるかな

koi seji to
mitarashigawa ni
oharaishite
kami uketsuran to
omohoyuru kana
I’ll not fall in love, and
At the River Mitarashi
Purify myself—
Would the gods then accept me,
I wonder!

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恋なれどそこにもすまぬひれはみづにごれりとおもほゆるかな

koi naredo
soko ni mo sumanu
hire wa mizu
nigoreri to
omohoyuru kana
This is love, yet
The deeps are all disturbed, with
Fins the waters
Clouding,
I feel!

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こひわたる程のふかさにそめ川の色あさからじとおもほゆるかな

koiwataru
hodo no fukasa ni
somekawa no
iro asakaraji to
omohoyuru kana
So long have I loved you that
The depths of
Dyers’ River have
Lost their pale hues
I feel!

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おもふとて夕ぐれがたのながめをや人待つほどの恋といふらん

omou tote
yūguregata no
nagame o ya
hito matsu hodo no
koi to iuran
Thinking of him
As evening draws on, and
I gaze on long rains falling; is
Time pining for a man
Being in love, I wonder?

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年の内にあまる月日の有りければかぞへのうちにははわぶるかな

toshi no uchi ni
amaru tsuki hi no
arikereba
kazoe no uchi ni
haha waburu kana
Throughout the year
The days and months mount up
So
Counting them
My mother grieves!

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