八幡山木だかき松にゐるたづのはね白妙にみ雪ふるらし
| yahatayama kodakaki matsu ni iru tazu no hane shirotae ni miyuki fururashi | On Yahata Mountain’s Pines, so tall, Rest cranes with Wings white as mulberry cloth Seeming dusted with fallen snow. |
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Love at the dawn.
あかつきの鴫のはねがきしげけれどなど逢ふ事のま遠なるらん
| akatsuki no shigi no hane ga shigekeredo nado au koto no madōnaruran | At the dawn The snipes’ wingbeats Incessant are, so Why must our meetings Be intermittent?[1] |
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[1] An allusive variation on: Topic unknown. 曉のしぎのはねがきももはがき君がこぬ夜は我ぞかずかく akatsuki no / shigi no hanegaki / momohagaki / kimi ga konu yo wa / ware zo kazu kaku ‘With the dawn / The snipe beat their wings / A hundred times or more / On nights without a visit from you / I count them all.’ Anonymous (KKS XV: 761)
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Snipe
Left (Tie)
たれか又暁ごとに夢さめて羽掻く鴫の声を聞くらむ
| tareka mata akatuki goto ni yume samete Fane kaku sigi no kowe wo kikuramu | Who is it that yet With every single dawn Awakens from her dreams, and The wing-beating snipes’ Cries does hear? |
Koma
小馬
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我ならで誰か聞くらむ暁の羽掻く鴫の数を尽くして
| ware narade tare ka kikuramu akatuki no Fane kaku sigi no kazu wo tukusite | If not I, then Who is it that will hear? With the dawn The snipes’ wing-beats Coming to an end… |
Saemon
左衛門
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