On flowers.
臥いまろび恋ひは死ぬともいちしろく色には出でじ朝顔の花
| koimarobi kopi pa sinu tomo itisiroku iro ni pa idezi asagapo no pana |
Writhing I may die of love, yet Remarkably No sign of passion’s hue will show, as on A bellflower bloom. |
Tag Archives: hue
Eikyū hyakushu 376
時雨つつ吹く山風に椎柴の枝はなひけど色は変らず
| shiguretsutsu fuku yama kaze ni shiishiba no eda wa nabikedo iro wa kawarazu |
Showers mixed with Gusting mountain winds The brushwood Branches bend down yet They show no change of hue. |
Minamoto no Kanemasa
源兼昌
SZS IV: 249
Topic unknown.
宮城野の萩や雄鹿の妻ならん花咲きしより声の色なる
| miyagino no Fagi ya wosika no tuma naran Fana sakisi yori kowe no iro naru |
On Miyagi plain Has the bush clover the stag’s Bride become? For since the blossom bloomed His cry takes on its passionate hue. |
Fujiwara no Mototoshi
藤原基俊
Eikyū hyakushu 300
山里の葎の垣に這ふ蔦の色にて秋の深きをぞ知る
| yamazato no mugura no kaki ni hau tsuta no iro nite aki no fukaki wo zo shiru |
Upon this moutain hut’s Weed-tangled fence Trails ivy: Its hue autumn’s Depth does reveal! |
Higo
京極関白家肥後
Love VI: 15
Left.
心あひの風いづかたへ吹かぬらん我には散らす言の葉もなし
| kokoro ai no kaze izukata e fukanuran ware ni wa chirasu koto no ha mo nashi |
This pleasant Breeze: whither Does it blow? To me not one scattered Leaf or word has it delivered. |
Kenshō.
929
Right (Win).
色に出し言の葉もみなかれはてゝ涙を散らす風の音哉
| iro ni idashi koto no ha mo mina karehatete namida o chirasu kaze no oto kana |
The bright hues of passion In these leaves and your words Have all withered away; Tears scattering with The sound of the wind… |
Lord Takanobu.
930
The Right state: ‘Breeze: whither’ (kaze izukata e) seems lacking. The Left state: the Right’s poem has no faults to indicate.
In judgement: in the Left’s poem, I wonder whether ‘breeze: wither’ really is lacking. ‘This pleasant’ (kokoro no ai) would seem to be an expression deriving from ‘At the head of the road’. I seem to recall it coming after ‘In Kofu in Takefu / Will I be’, but that is not a suitable source. The Right’s poem, as the Gentlemen of the Left have said, appears to have no faults. It should win.
KKS XX: 1100
A poem from the Kamo winter festival.
ちはやぶるかものやしろのひめこまつよろづ世ふともいろはかはらじ
| tiFayaburu kamo no yasiro no Fimekomatu yoroduyo Futomo iro Fa kaFarazi |
At puissant Kamo Shrine, The Princess’ pine, Though ten thousand ages pass Will never change her hue! |
Fujiwara no Toshiyuki
藤原敏行
GSIS XVII: 991
When the same former Emperor [Koichijō] had gone to reside with the Takamatsu Consort, and his visits to her had become intermittent, she composed this on hearing the wind blowing strongly through the pines.
松風は色や緑にふきつらむ物おもふ人の身にぞ志みぬる
| matukaze Fa iro ya midori ni Fukituramu mono’omoFu Fito no mi ni zo siminuru |
Does the wind through the pines Take on a hue of green As it blows? That one so sunk in gloomy thought It so deeply dyes… |
The Horikawa Consort 堀川女御
[Fujiwara no Nobuko/Enshi 藤原延子 (985-1019)
GSIS X: 536
During the reign of former Emperor Ichijō, after Her Majesty, the Empress had passed away, when some letters were found tied with the cord that had been used to hold back her curtain of state, these were among three poems written down when His Majesty’s expression indicated he would like to see them.
夜もすがら契りし事を忘れずばこひむ涙のいろぞ床しき
| yomosugara tigirisi koto wo wasurezuba koFimu namida no iro zo yukasiki |
All throughout the night We vowed, and If I forget it not, Our tears of love’s Hue is all my longing! |
SKS VII: 218
Composed for the Poetry Competition held at the Residence of Middle Councillor Toshitada.
くれなゐの濃染の衣うへにきむこひのなみたの色かくるやと
| kurenawi no kosome no koromo uFe ni kimu koFi no namida no iro kakuru ya to |
In scarlet Deeply dyed, a robe Would I put on That my tears of love’s Hue be concealed! |
Fujiwara no Akitsuna
藤原顕綱
somenedomo
そめねども身に染む色はかはりけり常盤の森の秋風の声
| somenedomo mi ni shimu iro wa kawarikeri tokiwa no mori no akikaze no koe |
Although it marks me not The hue deep within me Does change As in the forest of Tokiwa Whispers the autumn wind. |
Shunzei’s Daughter
俊成女
Kenpō meisho hyakushu
建保名所百首