恋草に染かへりたる色なれば思ひそめけむ日をぞ恨むる
koFigusa ni
The lovely grasses’
Minamoto no Toshiyori
逢ふことは夏野に茂る恋草の刈りはらへども生ひむせびつつ
aFu koto Fa
Our meetings, like
Minamoto no Toshiyori
萌え出でてまた双葉なる恋草のいく穂となきにおける露かな
moeidete
Budding out, and
Minamoto no Yorimasa
Hidden Love
おく山のくきがれなるはたつもりしられぬ恋にかよふころかな
okuyama no Deep within the mountains
Minamoto no Toshiyori
百草の花のけぶりや七夕の雲の衣の袖に染むらむ
momokusa no
Are all the grasses
Fujiwara no Shunzei
In Kanpyō-Shōhō 2 [750], on the 24th day of the Third Month, it would be near to the beginning of summer in the Fourth Month, so he composed these two poems when, on the evening of the 23rd day, he suddenly thought of a cuckoo calling at dawn.
霍公鳥来鳴き響めば草取らむ花橘を宿には植ゑずて
pototogisu
When the cuckoo
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
草深く荒たる宿の灯火の風にきえぬは蛍なりけり
kusa Fukaku
Deep within the grasses
日数ゆく野原篠原夏深し分入る袖の露の草摺
hikazu yuku
The days go by, and
Fujiwara no Shunzei
春の野の下草靡き我れも寄りにほひ寄りなむ友のまにまに
haru no no no
In the spring meadows,
Frogs (蛙)
いかばかりいぶせかるらんこやの池の水草のもとにすだく蛙は
ika bakari ibusekaruran koya no ike no mikusa no moto ni sudaku kawazu wa How very
Minamoto no Kanemasa
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