谷深み水かけ草の下露や知られぬ恋の涙なるらむ
| tani ni Fukami midukakegusa no sitatuyu ya sirarenu koFi no namida naruramu |
Deep within the valley, Are the water-dripped loosestrife’s Silver dewdrops Secret love’s Tears? |
Minamoto no Toshiyori
源俊頼
Tag Archives: dewdrops
Yorimasa-shū 338
萌え出でてまた双葉なる恋草のいく穂となきにおける露かな
| moeidete mata futabanaru koigusa no iku ho to naki ni okeru tsuyu kana |
Budding out, and In the first, freshest growth Are the lovely grasses; How many ears will not be touched By falling dewdrops… |
Minamoto no Yorimasa
源頼政
Minishū 2495
宮城野のま萩が上の白露を玉にしきても宿る月かな
| miyagino no mahagi ga ue no shiratsuyu o tama ni shikitemo yadoru tsuki kana |
On Miyagi plain Upon the fair bush clover Silver dewdrops Are spread like gems Where the moon takes rest. |
Ietaka
Sankashū 972
Topic unknown.
小笹原葉末の露は玉に似て石なき山を行く心地する
| ozasawara hazue no tsuyu wa tama ni nite ishinaki yama o yuku kokochisuru |
In the groves of young broad-leaved bamboo Dewdrops on the leaf-tips Resemble jewels; Through mountains with no rocks I feel as if I travel! |
Saigyō
西行
Eikyū hyakushu 275
秋の夜の稲葉の露に稲妻の光を宿す程は我が身か
| aki no yo no inaba no tsuyu ni inazuma no hikari o yadosu hodo wa wa ga mi ka |
On an autumn night In the dewdrops on the rice fronds The lightning’s Light does lodge – Will I last as long? |
Minamoto no Nakazane
Love VI: 18
Left (Win).
さらでだに恨みんと思ふ我妹子が衣の裾に秋風ぞ吹く
| sarade dani uramin to omou wagimoko ga koromo no suso ni akikaze zo fuku |
That is not it, yet even so, I do think to hate My darling girl, Her robe hem Blown by the autumn wind… |
Lord Ari’ie.
935
Right.
いかなれば露をば払ふ風の音に物思ふ袖の濡れまさるらん
| ika nareba tsuyu o harau kaze no oto ni mono’omou sode no nuremasaruran |
For some reason Dewdrops blown by The wind – the mere sound Brings to my gloomy sleeves A dampness most extreme… |
Jakuren.
936
The Right state: the Left’s poem is most admirable. The Left state: the Right’s poem is definitely not!
In judgement: to give the gist of the comments by the Gentlemen of the Left and the Right, the Left’s poem is admirable, and the Right’s poem is not admirable at all. I see no need to make much more of this round that that, so, the Left wins.
Eikyū hyakushu 218
夕立や雲のさわぎに風はやみ露をとどむる草の葉はぞなき
| yūdachi ya kumo no sawagi ni kaze wa yami tsuyu o todomuru kusa no ha zo naki |
An evening shower: The clouds confused With the dropping of the wind, and Dewdrops lingering On not a single blade of grass. |
Minamoto no Akinaka
KKS XIV: 694
Topic unknown.
宮木野のもとあらの小萩つゆをおもみ風をまつごと君をこそまつ
| miyagino no motoara no koFagi tuyu o omomi kaze o matu goto kimi o koso matu |
On Miyagi Plain The speckled bush clover Weighed down with dewdrops Awaits the wind, just as I do wait for you… |
Anonymous
Love II: 18
Left (Tie).
風荒きもとあらの小萩袖に見て更け行夜半におもる白露
| kaze araki moto’ara no kohagi sode ni mite fukeyuku yowa ni omoru shiratsuyu |
The wind, rough, Speckles the little bush clover; Upon my sleeves At midnight Heavy lie silven dewdrops. |
695
Right.
來ぬひとを何にかこたん山の端の月は待出でて小夜更けにけり
| konu hito o nani ni ka kotan yama no hashi no tsuki wa machi’idete sayo fukenikeri |
A man who comes not – For what should I sigh? The mountains’ edge Awaits the emerging moon, As evening wears on. |
696
Left and Right, again, state they find no faults.
Shunzei’s judgement: the Left’s ‘upon my sleeves’ (sode ni mite) seems to go well with the conception, but that conception itself is not expressed in the poem’s diction. The Right’s ‘for what should I sigh?’ simply expresses the conception in its diction. They are of the same quality and should tie.
Love II: 17
Left (Win).
蓬生の末葉の露の消えかへりなをこの世にと待たん物かは
| yomogyū no sueba no tsuyu no kiekaeri nao kono yo ni to matan mono ka wa |
From the mugwort Leaf-tips, the dewdrops Have all vanished; Yet within this world Can I wait on…? |
693
Right.
頼めとや頼めし宵の更くるこそかつがつ變る心なりけれ
| tanome to ya tanomeshi yoi no fukuru koso katsugatsu kawaru kokoro narikere |
‘Believe in me’ And so I did, but Night goes on And, indeed, His heart has changed! |
694
Left and Right state: the contents of both poems are fine.
Shunzei’s judgement: the conception and configuration of both poems is elegant, and the Left’s ‘from the mugwort leaf-tips, the dewdrops’ (yomogyū no sueba no tsuyu) sounds fine. The Left should win.