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umi wa harete

On climbing a tower belonging to someone by the water’s edge at the end of the Fifth Month.

海ははれてひえふりのこす五月哉

umi wa harete
hie furinokosu
satsuki kana
The waters are calm now, but
Rain still falls on Hie–
‘Tis the Fifth Month, indeed.

(1688)

SKKS I: 16

A New Year’s Day poem, composed on the Hie shrine.

さゞなみやしがのはまゝつふりにけりたがよにひけるねの日なるらん

sazanami ya
shiga no hamamatsu
furinikeri
ta ga yo ni hikeru
ne no hi naruran
Where the wavelets strike
On Shiga beach the pine trees
Have grown old;
Whose reign might have seen you plucked
On a new year’s day, I wonder.

Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成