Sleet
夕されば雪ふるさとの柴の庵しづくにてこそみぞれとはしれ
yūsareba yuki furu sato no shiba no ya wa shizuku nite koso mizore to wa shire When the evening comes
Minamoto no Akinaka
大き海の水底深く思ひつつ裳引き平しし菅原の里
opoki umi no
The mighty ocean’s
The Elder Maiden of Ishikawa
Early Evening (晩立)
夕立にをちのみぞ川まさりつつふらぬ里までながれきにけり
yūdachi ni With the evening showers
Kanemasa
A poem by the Governor-General of Dazai, Lord Ōtomo.
橘の花散る里の霍公鳥片恋しつつ鳴く日しぞ多き
tatibana no
Orange
Ōtomo no Tabito
When a man who had long visited a woman at the house of the Sugawara Minister, ceased coming for a while, and then came once more.
菅原や伏見の里の荒れしより通ひし人のあともたえにき
sugaFara ya
Sedge fields lie
Anonymous
Composed on the conception of the beginning of spring.
みよしのは山もかすみてしらゆきのふりにしさとに春はきにけり
miyoshino wa
In fair Yoshino
The Regent and Prime Minister
It is said that Her Majesty, when on the way to the capital, Nara, from the Fujiwara palace, had her palanquin halted at Nagaya-no-hara and composed this poem gazing at her former home.
飛鳥 明日香能里乎 置而伊奈婆 君之當者 不所見香聞安良武 [一云 君之當乎 不見而香毛安良牟]
飛ぶ鳥の明日香の里を置きて去なば君があたりは見えずかもあらむ
tobu tori no A bird in flight:
Empress Genmei (660-721)元明皇后
Sent to her when Tomonori’s daughter had gone to Michinoku.
君をのみしのぶの里へゆくものをあびつの山のはるけきやなぞ
kimi o nomi
You, alone
The Daughter of Shigemoto
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