Round One
Left
山だもるあきのかりほにおく露はいなおほせどりのなみだなりけり
| yamada moru aki no kariho ni oku tsuyu wa inaosedori no namida narikeri | Warding mountain fields, in Autumn upon a hasty hut The dripping dewdrops are Migrating birds’ Tears. |
Tadamine
1
Right
たつたひめいかなるかみにあればかは山をちくさにあきはそむらん
| tatsutahime ika naru kami ni areba ka wa yama o chikusa ni aki wa somuran | Princess Tatsuta: What manner of deity Might she be, that All the mountain’s thousand grasses She dyes with autumn hues? |
2
When he had gone to Kibune, he wrote this on the fence surrounding the shrine.
思ふ事なる河上に跡垂れて貴船は人を渡す也けり
| omoFu koto naru kaFa kami ni atotarete kibune Fa Fito wo watasu narikeri |
The focus of my thoughts Are the river’s upper flows, Where incarnated The deity at Kibune, folk Transports. |
Fujiwara no Tokifusa
藤原時房
When Major Captain of the Left Asamitsu had sent her pledges of his love, and she was urged to respond, she sent him this.
ちはやぶるかものやしろの神もきけ君わすれずはわれもわすれじ
| tiFayaburu kamo no yasiro no kami mo kike kimi wasurezu Fa ware mo wasurezi |
Puissant Kamo Shrine’s Deity, hear me! If my love forsakes me not, Then never will I forsake him! |
Uma no Naishi
馬内侍
A poem composed on the day of a poetry gathering on the peak of Tsukuba.
鷲の住む 筑波の山の 裳羽服津の その津の上に 率ひて 娘子壮士の 行き集ひ かがふかがひに 人妻に 我も交らむ 我が妻に 人も言問へ この山 を うしはく神の 昔より 禁めぬわざぞ 今日のみは めぐしもな見そ 事もとがむな
| washi no sumu tukuba no yama no mopakitu no sono tu no upe ni adomopite wotome wotoko no yukitudopi kagapu kagapi ni pitoduma ni ware mo maziramu wa ga tuma ni pito mo koto tope kono yama o usipaku kami no mukasi yori isamenu waza zo kepu nomi pa megusi mo na mi so koto mo togamu na |
Where eagles dwell On the mount of Tsukuba, At Mowakitsu, From the landing, We all went together Men and women both Gathering together For a poetry meet; With another’s wife Did I consort; My own wife Did others woo; This mountain’s Ruling deity, Since days long gone, Has not forbade it; On this day, alone, We will find no misfortune; No words of blame! |
Takahashi no Mushimaro Collection