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Shiki koi sanshu uta’awase – Autumn

Autumn

Left

秋の夜の有明にみれど久堅の月のかつらはうつろはぬかな

aki no yo no
ariake ni miredo
hisakata no
tsuki no katsura wa
utsurouwanu kana
An autumn night’s
Dawn I see, yet
The eternal
Moon’s silver trees
Show no sign of fading!

13

秋萩の花咲く比の白露は下ばのためとわきて置くべし

aki hagi no
hana saku koro no
shiratsuyu wa
shitaba no tame to
wakite okubeshi
In autumn, the bush clover
Flowers bloom—just then
Silver dewdrops
For the under-leaves
Do fall, marking every one.

14

秋風はいなばもそよとふきつめりかりみる程と成りやしぬらん

akikaze wa
inaba mo soyo to
fukitsumeri
kari miru hodo to
nari ya shinuran
The autumn breeze
Seems to rustle the rice stalks
As it blows;
Seeing if ‘tis time to reap them—
Is that what it is, I wonder?

15

Right

銀河とわたる舟は花薄ほにいづるほどぞかげもみゆべき

ama no kawa
towataru fune wa
hanasusuki
ho ni izuru hodo zo
kage mo miyubeki
Across the River of Heaven
A boat goes ferrying:
When the silver grass
Ears burst into bloom,
Can its shape be seen.

16

女郎花さがの花をば色ながら秋をさかりといはれずもがな

ominaeshi
saga no hana oba
iro nagara
aki o sakari to
iwarezu mogana
Maidenflowers:
Blossoms from Saga
Reveal their hues, and
In autumn are most fine—that
Goes without saying!

17

小男鹿の朝たつ霧にうりふ山嶺の梢は色こかりけり

saoshika no
asa tatsu kiri ni
urifuyama
mine no kozue wa
iro kokarikeri
Stags
Within the rising morning mist on
Urifu Moutain, where
The treetops on the peak
Have taken darker hues.

18

Koresada shinnō-ke uta’awase 16

しら露のおきしくのべを見るごとにあはれは秋ぞかずまさりける

shiratsuyu no
okishiku nobe o
miru goto ni
aware wa aki zo
kazu masarikeru
Silver dewdrops,
Fallen, scattered upon the meadows:
Every time I see them
The sadnesses of autumn
Increase in number.

31

あきかぜのうちふくからにはなもはもみだれてもちるのべの草きか

aki kaze no
uchifuku kara ni
hana mo ha mo
midarete mo chiru
nobe no kusaki ka
The autumn breeze
Is blowing keenly, so will
Both flowers and leaves
Scatter confusedly
From the trees and grasses on the meadow?

32

Dairi uta’awase Kanna Gan-nen 3

Fields
 
Left

いつしかもゆきてはやみむあきのののはなのしたひもとけはてぬらん

itsu shika mo
yukite wa yamimu
aki no no no
hana no shitahimo
tokehatenuran
Swiftly
Shall I halt my travels
In an autumn meadow;
A blossom’s underbelt
Seems completely undone.

Korenari
5

Right (Win)

かりにとやいもはまつらんあきのののはなみるほどはいへぢわすれぬ

kari ni to ya
imo wa matsuran
aki no no no
hana miru hodo wa
ieji wasurenu
Is it but briefly that
My sweetheart should wait?
In an autumn meadow
While gazing at the flowers
The way home I have quite forgot!

Nagayoshi
6

Kanpyō no ōntoki kiku awase 10

A chrysanthemum from the barrier at Meeting Hill.
この花は尽きぬらし関川のたえずも見よと折れる菊の枝

kono Fana Fa
tukinurasi
sekikaFa no
taezu mo miyo to
woreru kiku no e
These flowers
Do never seem to end, as
The river past the barrier gate
Endless appears to flow, so too is
A plucked chrysanthemum stem.

10

Chūjō miyasudokoro uta’awase

Composed when it was said that a poetry competition was to be held at the residence of the Ninna Middle Captain Lady of the Bedchamber.
花のちることやわびしき春霞たつたの山のうぐひすのこゑ

Fana no tiru
koto ya wabisiki
Farugasumi
tatuta no yama no
uguFisu no kowe
The falling of the flowers
Is sad, indeed;
In the spring haze
On Tatsuta Mountain
A warbler cries…

Fujiwara no Chikage
藤原後蔭

1[1]

Composed when it was said that a poetry competition was to be held at the residence of the Ninna Middle Captain Lady of the Bedchamber.
惜しと思ふ心は糸に縒られなむ散る花ごとに貫きてとどめむ

osi to omoFu
kokoro Fa ito ni
yorarenamu
tiru Fana goto ni
nukite todomemu
A regretful
Heart with threads
Does seem to be entangled;
Every single scattered bloom
Will I thread on them to keep.

Sosei
素性

2[2]


[1]This poem is included in Kokinshū (II: 108).

[2]This poem is included in Kokinshū (II: 114) and also in Sosei-shū 素性集 (16), where in some versions the headnote reads ‘[Composed] on the profusion of blossom when it was decided there would be poetry match at the residence of the Ninnaji Middle Captain Lady of the Bedchamber’.