冬こもり春咲く花を手折り持ち千たびの限り恋ひわたるかも
| puyu komori paru saku pana wo tawori moti titabi no kagiri kopiwataru kamo |
Sealed in winter Springtime’s blooming blossoms Do I take in hand – A thousand times and more Does love for you fill my thoughts. |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
柿本人麻呂歌集
On birds.
春さればもずの草ぐき見えずとも我れは見やらむ君があたりをば
| paru sareba mozu no kusaguki miezutomo ware pa miyaramu kimi ga atari woba |
When the spring does come, The shrike within the grasses Vanishes from view, yet I will ever gaze Toward the place where you do dwell… |
A poem by Middle Councillor Abe no Hironiwa.
去年の春いこじて植ゑし我が宿の若木の梅は花咲きにけり
| kozo no paru ikozite uwesi wa ga yado no wakaki no ume pa pana sakinikeri |
In spring last year I did dig to plant At my home A young plum tree whose Blossom has bloomed! |
Abe no Hironiwa
阿部広庭
On parting.
朝戸出の君が姿をよく見ずて長き春日を恋ひや暮らさむ
| asa tode no kimi ga sugata wo yoku mizute nagaki parupi wo kopi ya kurasamu |
In the morning, opening the door My lord’s form I could not see well, so How through this long spring day Can I live with my love? |
Composed when a large number of the Junior Consort’s ladies conducted blossom-viewing during the reign of former Emperor Horikawa.
春毎にあかぬ匂をさくら花いかなる風のをしまざるらむ
| Faru goto ni akanu nioFi wo sakurabana ikanaru kaze no woshimazaruramu |
Every single spring Never am I sated by The cherry blossom; What breeze is it that Is not a cause of regret? |
Chikuzen Wet Nurse
筑前乳母
君が代を尾上の松にくらべむに幾代の春か逢はむとすらむ
| kimi ga yo o onoe no matsu ni kurabemu ni ikuyo no haru ka awamu to suramu |
My Lord, your reign To the pines of Onoe Will be compared! Everlastingly spring Will it encounter! |
Fujiwara no Akisuke
藤原顕輔
ほのぼのと明石の浜を見渡しば春の浪わけ出づる船の帆
| Fonobono to akasi no Fama wo miwataseba Faru no namiwake iduru Fune no Fo |
In the gloaming When across the beach at Akashi I sweep my gaze, Cutting through the springtime waves Are the sails of departing boats. |
Minamoto no Shitagō
源順
冬草と見えし春野の小笹原弥生の雨に深緑なる
| fuyu kusa to mieshi haruno no ozasawara yayoi no ame ni fukamidori naru |
A winter plant They did appear in the fields in springtime: The groves of young broad-leaved bamboo By the Third Month’s rains Turned the darkest green. |
Fujiwara no Nakazane
藤原仲実
Sent around the end of the Twelfth Month from the province of Bizen to the residence of the Controller of Dewa.
都へは年と共にぞ歸るべきやがて春をもむかへがてらに
| miyako Fe Fa tosi to tomo ni zo kaFerubeki yagate Faru wo mo mukaFe gatera ni |
To the capital Along with the year I must return; At last, with the spring Shall I proceed together! |
Minamoto no Tameyoshi
源為善
春まけてもの悲しきにさ夜更けて羽振き鳴く鴫誰が田にか住む
| paru makete mono kanasiki ni sayo pukete pabuki naku sigi ta ga ta ni ka sumu |
I cannot wait for spring; Somehow sad, At the dusk, The snipe cry and beat their wings – I wonder, whose is the field where they take their ease? |
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
大伴家持