今朝見ずはまがひなましを夕顔の垣根に白く咲ける卯の花
kesa mizu wa
magainamashi o
yūgao no
kakine ni shiroku
sakeru u no hana |
This morning I failed to see, but
Perhaps, mistook
Moonflowers
On the lattice fence brightly
Blooming for deutzia… |
Ōe no Masafusa
This poem is also Eshishū 379
Composed on birds.
五月山卯の花月夜霍公鳥聞けども飽かずまた鳴かぬかも
satukiyama
u no panaduku yo
pototogisu
kikedomo akazu
mata nakanu kamo |
In the moutains in the Fifth Month,
On moonlit nghts when deutzias bloom
To the cuckoo
I listen, yet cannot get my fill;
O sing for me once more! |
Anonymous
見わたせばとをちのさとのうづきばらうづきになれや花白く見ゆ
miwataseba
tōchi no sato no
uzukibara
uzuki ni nare ya
hana shiroku miyu |
When I look across
Far distant Tōchi’s
Deutzia fields,
When the Fourth Month comes, I wonder
Will the blooms be white? |
Minamoto no Yorimasa
源頼政
Composed on a fence, covered with deutzia blooms.
いづれをか分きて問はまし山里の垣根続きに咲ける卯の花
idure wo ka
wakite toFamasi
yamazato no
kakine tsuduki ni
sakeru u no Fana |
Where
Do they part, I wonder?
This mountain dwelling’s
Fence, joined with
Deutzia… |
Ōe no Motofusa
When I had been conversing with a lady for some time, I said this to her around the Fourth Month:
卯花の垣根がくれのほとゝぎすわが忍び音といづれほどへぬ
u no Fana no
kakinegakure no
Fototogisu
wa ga sinobine to
idure Fodo Fenu |
Among the scattered, white deutzia blooms
Along the fence concealed is
A cuckoo;
My plaintive cry, or his,
Which has lasted longer? |
Deutzia.
袖ぬらすわが身のためや山里の世をうの花も波とみゆらん
sode nurasu
wa ga mi no tame ya
yamazato no
yo no unohana mo
nami to miyuran |
Sleeves soaked,
Is it for me that
My mountain dwelling’s
Deutzia blooms – how cruel the world –
Do seem as waves? |
On deutzia.
卯の花やくらき柳の及ごし
u no hana ya
kuraki yanagi no
oyobigoshi |
Above the white deutzia flowers
The dark willow tree
Seems to be stooping. |
(1694)
Topic unknown.
さ月山うの花月よほとゝぎすきけどもあかず又なかんかも
satsuki yama
u no hana zuku yo
hototogisu
kikedomo akazu
mata nakan ka mo |
Summer rain in the mountains,
The moon white as deutzia blooms:
Cuckoo calls
I hear, yet never get my fill;
I wonder, will he call again? |
Anonymous.
Topic unknown.
なくこゑをえやはしのばぬほとゝぎすはつうの花のかげにかくれて
naku koe o
e yawa shinobanu
hototogisu
hatsu u no hana no
kage ni kakurete |
A breath of song:
You cannot let it slip,
O, cuckoo,
In the early deutzia blooms’
Shade concealed. |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
柿本人麻呂
Topic unknown.
うの花のさきぬるときはしろたへのなみもてゆへるかきねとぞみる
u no hana no
sakinuru toki wa
shirotae no
nami moteyueru
kakine to zo miru |
The deutzia
When in bloom,
White cords
Of breakers bound
Upon the brushwood fence, do seem. |
Senior Assistant Governor General of the Dazaifu [Fujiwara no] Shige’ie (1128-1180)
'Simply moving and elegant'