Summer
Five poems on the Fourth Month
Left (Win)
みやまいでてまづはつこゑはほととぎすよぶかくまたむわがやどになけ
miyama idete mazu hatsukoe wa hototogisu yobu kaku matamu wa ga yado ni nake Emerging from the mountains deep,
Masakata[i]
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Right
けふよりはなつのころもになりぬれどきるひとさへはかはらざりけり
kyō yori wa natsu no koromo ni narinuredo kiru hito sae wa kawarazarikeri From today
Mitsune
‘The Right is uninteresting,’ so it lost.
[i] Minamoto no Masakata 源雅固 (dates unknown). A son of Minamoto no Sada’ari 源定有 (dates unknown), one of the sons of Emperor Montoku (827-858; r. 850-858).
Lilac Daphne.
一重きるきぬもうきまでいかにひのはなはだしくも照増るらむ
hitoe kiru A single layer have I donned;
Murata Harumi (1746-1811)|
[One of] Four poems composed by guests at a banquet held at Ashiki post station in the province of Tsukushi to celebrate the departure of Ōtomo no Tabito from Dazaifu when he was commanded to return to the capital on his promotion to Major Counsellor.
辛人之 衣染云 紫之 情尓染而 所念鴨
韓人の衣染むといふ紫の心に染みて思ほゆるかも
karabito no Cathy folk
Senior Clerk, Asada no Murajiyasu
Left
秋の月草むらわかずてらせばややどせる露を玉とみすらん
aki no tsuki kusamura wakazu teraseba ya yadoseru tsuyu o tama to misuran Does the autumn moon
114
Right
なほざりに秋のみやまに入りぬれば錦のいろの衣をこそきれ
naozari ni aki nomi yama ni irinureba nishiki no iro no kinu o koso kire Easily, indeed,
115
Left
秋のせみさむき声にぞきこゆなる木のはの衣を風やぬぎつる
aki no semi samuki koe ni zo kikoyunaru ko no ha no kinu o kaze ya nugitsuru In the autumn, the cicadas’
112[1]
Right
あきの夜の月の影こそ木の間よりおちてはきぬとみえわたりけれ
aki no yo no tsuki no kage koso ko no ma yori ochite wa kinu to miewatarikere On an autumn nightDoes come a’falling Everywhere, it seems.
113
[1] Shinsen man’yōshū 109/Fubokushō XIII: 5422
Left
白露の染めいだす萩の下紅葉衣にうつすあきは来にけり
shiratsuyu no some’idasu hagi no shita momiji koromo ni utsusu aki wa kinikeri Silver dewdrops
102
Right
風寒み啼く秋虫のなみだこそ草に色どる露とおくらめ
kaze samumi naku akimushi no namida koso kusa ni irodoru tsuyu to okurame The wind is chill, with
103
A poem from the Poetry Contest held by the Dowager Empress during the Reign of the Kanpyō Emperor.
秋のせみさむき声にぞきこゆなる木のはの衣を風やぬぎつる
aki no semi samuki koe ni zo kikoyunaru ko no ha no kinu o kaze ya nugitsuru In the autumn, the cicadas’
Anonymous
Geese
わがせこがたびのころもをうちはへてまつかりがねのいまもなかなむ
wa ga seko ga My darling man’s
Korenari
Right
わぎもこがかけてまつらんたまづさとかきつらねたるはつかりのこゑ
wagimoko ga My darling girl
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Seafolk 泉郎
ぬれ衣いまぞはつきにかけてほすかづきしてけりうらのあま人
nuregoromo Their soaking garb
Kanemasa
Cathay Folk 唐人
から人の衣にかざるしら玉の碧き光のめづらしきかな
karabito no The Cathay folks’
Higo
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