A poem from a folding screen in the Engi period.
ゆふだすきちとせをかけてあしびきの山あゐのいろはかはらざりけり
| yūdasuki chi tose o kakete ashihiki no yama ai no iro wa kawarazarikeri |
Sacred mulberry cord Hung for a thousand years; Leg-wearying Indigo hue Will never fade. |
Tsurayuki
貫之
When the gentlemen of the court were presenting hundred-poem sequences, He composed this on the spirit of celebration.
白雲にはねうちつけてとぶ鶴の遙に千世の思ほゆるかな
| siragumo ni Fane utitukete tobu tadu no Faruka ni titose no omoFoyuru kana |
Upon the clouds so white, Beating wings, The flying cranes- A distant prospect of a thousand years I feel. |
Emperor Nijō
二条天皇
During the second year of Hōen (1136) there was an imperial excursion to the Hōkinkō In and he composed this on the spirit of ‘chrysanthemums’ many autumn vows’.
君が代を長月にしも菊の花咲くや千歳のしるしなるらむ
| kimi ga yo wo nagatuki ni simo kiku no Fana saku ya titose no sirusi naruramu |
My Lord’s reign: In the Ninth-longest-month Chrysanthemum flowers Bloom-of a thousand years Will they be a sign, perhaps. |
The Hōshō-ji Lay Priest and Former Grand Minister [Fujiwara no Tadamichi]
藤原忠通
Composed on the spirit of the beginning of the year, when she presented a hundred poem sequence during the reign of Retired Emperor Horikawa
行末をまつぞひさしき君がへむ千代の始の子日と思へば
| yukusuwe wo matu zo Fisasiki kimi ga Femu tiyo no Fazime no ne no Fi to omoFeba |
For the future Wait the pines, eternal, My Lord shall see A thousand years-the first Year’s Day’s today, I feel. |
Higo
When His Majesty was yet a prince and had paid a visit to the Toba Palace to converse the Hachijō’in Princess, Her Highness recited, ‘The bamboo has been my friend these many years,’ so His Majesty composed a poem
幾千世とかぎらざりける呉竹や君が齡のたぐひなるらむ
| iku tiyo to kagirazarikeru kuretake ya kimi ga yoFaFi no taguFi naruramu | How many thousand years- Unlimited-lives Chinese bamboo; My Lady’s age Will be of its span, I’d say. |
The Retired Emperor [Goshirakawa]
後白河院
The day after someone’s third son had had his coming-of-age ceremony, Motosuke sent this to him.
松島の磯にむれゐる蘆鶴のをのがさまざまみえし千代かな
| matusima no iso ni murewiru asitadu no wono ga samazama miesi tiyo kana |
At Matsushima’s Rocky shore, the flocking Cranes among the reeds, Each and every one Has seen a thousand passing years. |
Topic unknown.
賢木葉を手にとりもちて祈りつる神の代よりもひさしからなん
| sakakiba wo te ni torimotite inorituru kami no yo yori mo Fisasikaranan |
Sacred leave of sakaki I grasped in my hand and Made my prayer: That the ages of the gods themselves I would outlast. |
Akazome Emon
赤染衛門
Composed for a picture of Sumiyoshi on a sliding door in the house of the Ichijô Minister of the Left [Minamoto no Masanobu].
すぎゝにしほどをばすてつ今年より千代のかずつむ住吉の松
| sukigi ni si Fodo wo ba sutetu kotosi yori tiyo no kazu tumu sumiyosi no matu |
The past We will abandon; From this year forth Of a thousand years in number make a pile, We pines of Sumiyoshi! |
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
