Tag Archives: Kaminabi

SKS IV: 157

Once when the New Retired Emperor [Sutoku] was there, he command that Tadamichi compose a poem on a prospect in the midst of snowfall, so he composed the following:

くれなゐにみえしこずゑも雪ふれば白木綿かくる神無備の森

kurenawi ni
miesi kozuwe mo
yuki Fureba
sira yuFu kakuru
kaminabi no mori
Scarlet hues
Appeared on the treetops:
Here with the falling snow
White cords of mulberry cloth are hung
In the forest of Kaminabi.

The Chancellor and Former Grand Minister [Fujiwara no Tadamichi] (1097-1164)

KKS V: 300

Composed on the flood of autumn leaves, when crossing the Tatsuta River when passing through the Kaminabi Mountains.

神なびの山をすぎ行く秋なればたつた河にぞぬさはたむくる

kaminabi no
yama wo sugiyuku
aki nareba
tatuta gaFa ni zo
nusa Fa tamukuru
Through the Kaminabi
Mountains passes
Autumn, so
On the river Tatsuta
Is a garland proffered.

Kiyowara no Fukayabu