Tag Archives: hanatachibana

MYS XIX: 4172

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
kinaki toyomeba
kusa toramu
panatatibana wo
yado ni wa uwezute
When the cuckoo
Arrives, his resounding song
Sends me gathering grasses,
For orange blossom
Has not been planted in my grounds…

Ōtomo no Yakamochi

SKKS III: 238

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たれかまたはなたちばなにおもひいでんわれもむかしの人となりなば

tare ka mata
hana tachibana ni
omoiiden
ware mo mukashi no
hito to narinaba
Who will once again
In the scent of orange blossom
Remember me?
As one from long ago
I am become…

Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
藤原俊成

SKKS III: 202

A cuckoo poem from a hundred-poem sequence composed at the request of the former Regent and Lay Priest, when he was Minister of the Right.

雨そゝくはなたち花に風すぎて山郭公雲になくなり

ame sosoku
hana tachibana ni
kaze sugite
yama hototogisu
kumo ni naku nari
Rain drips
From the orange blossoms,
Blown by the wind;
A mountain cuckoo
Calls from within the distant clouds.

Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
藤原俊成