Left (Tie).
雪折の竹の下道跡もなし荒れにしのちの深草の里
| yuki ore no take no shitamichi ato mo nashi arenishi nochi no fukakusa no sato |
Snow-snapped Bamboo trails Bear no tracks After the storm At the estate of Fukakusa. |
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Right
大伴の御津の濱風吹はらへ松とも見えじうづむ白雪
| ōtomo no mitsu no hama kaze fukiharae matsu tomo mieji uzumu shirayuki |
In Ōtomo Upon the beach at Mitsu, wind, Blow clean The pines, for they seem unlike themselves, Buried in drifted snow. |
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From the Minase 15 Love Poem Poetry Competition.
思いる身はふかくさのあきのつゆたのめしすゑやこがらしの風
| omoiiru mi wa fukakusa no aki no tsuyu tanomeshi sue ya kogarashi no kaze |
Dwelling on my thoughts At Fukakusa, deep among the grasses, The autumn’s dewfall comes With your broken promises? Or the chill and bitter wind… |
Fujiwara no Ietaka
藤原家隆
From the Poetry Contest in 1500 Rounds.
ふかくさのつゆのよすがを契にてさとをばかれず秋はきにけり
| fukakusa no tsuyu no yosuga wo chigiri nite sato o ba karezu aki wa kinikeri |
Deep within the grasses of Fukakusa, The dewfall links to Your fate: No parting from this house- Autumn has come, I hear. |
The Regent and Grand Minister [Fujiwara no Yoshitsune] (1169-1206)
藤原良経
Composed as an Autumn poem, when he presented a hundred-poem sequence.
夕されば野べの秋風身にしみて鶉なくなりふかぐさの里
| yuFu sareba nobe no aki kaze mi ni simite udura naku nari Fukakusa no sato |
When the evening comes The Autumn wing across the fields Pierces my breast, and I hear the quails crying In this Fukakusa home. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
藤原俊成
When making preparations to return to the capital after he had been living at Fukakusa for a while, he composed this poem and sent it to someone there.
年をへて住みこし里をいでて去なばいとど深草野とやなり南
| tosi wo Fete sumikosi sato wo idete inaba itodo fukakusa no to ya narinamu |
The years have passed Dwelling in this house; Were I to leave and go away How lush and thick would the grasses of Fukakusa- Returning to fields-become? |
Ariwara no Narihira
有原業平