Composed when she had gone to attend the Enlightenment Lecture at the Unrin’in [Cloud Wood Temple] around the Fifth Month.
むらさきの雲の林をみわたせばのりにあふちの花さきにけり
murasaki no
kumo no hayashi o
miwataseba
nori ni ōchi no
hana sakinikeri | When on violet
Clouds throughout the woods
Do I turn my gaze, then
The dharma do I encounter in the chinaberry’s
Flowering blossoms. |
Higo
On the view near the mountains
声たかみ林にさけぶ猿よりもわれぞ物おもふあきのゆふべは
koe takami
hayashi sakebu
saru yori mo
ware zo mono’omou
aki no yūbe wa | With voices loud
Within the woods howl
The monkeys, but far more
Sunk in gloomy thought am I,
On this autumn evening… |
Stars 星
時つ鳥なかず雲ゐにとどろきて星のはやしにうづもれぬらん
tokitsudori
nakazu kumoi ni
todorokite
hoshi no hayashi ni
uzumorenuran | The cuckoo is
Songless among the clouds, where
Echoes
Within the forest of stars
Seem never to die away… |
Toshiyori
梅の花散らまく惜しみ我が園の竹の林に鴬鳴くも
ume no pana
tiramaku wosimi
wa ga sono no
take no payasi ni
ugupisu naku kamo |
The plum blossom
Will scatter, so full of regret
In my garden’s
Bamboo grove
Does the warbler cry. |
Junior Secretary Aji no Okishima
少監阿氏奥島
'Simply moving and elegant'
