Temples 寺
有為の世はけふかあすかのかねの音をあはれいつまできかんとすらん
ui no yo wa
kyō ka asu ka no
kane no oto o
aware itsu made
kikan to suran | In this mundane world
Today and tomorrow, too,
The bell tolls on –
How long will its melancholy
I continue to hear? |
Kanemasa
Ancient Estates 故郷
さほどののさかゆるみればかげふれて古郷とこそおぼえざりけれ
saodono no
sakayuru mireba
kage furete
furusato to koso
oboezarikere | When Sao Hall
I shining see,
As the shadows fall
That it is an ancient estate
I do not feel at all… |
Kanemasa
Ponds 池
吹く風にみくさかたよる池水はなかばくもれるかがみなりけり
fuku kaze ni
mikusa katayoru
ikemizu wa
nakaba kumoreru
kagami narikeri | With the gusting wind
The waterweeds trail through
The pondwater, turning
What lies within into a clouded
Mirror. |
Kanemasa
Waterfalls 滝
名にたてぬみ山がくれの滝なれどながれはさとの人にしられぬ
na ni tatenu
miyamagakure no
taki naredo
nagare wa sato no
hito ni shirarenu | No name adorns
These hidden mountain
Falls, yet
Of their flow are the estate’s
Folk all unknowing… |
Kanemasa
Groves 原
あさぢふの露にうはげやそほつらんあしたの原にうづら鳴くなり
asajū no
tsuyu ni uwage ya
sōtsuran
ashita no hara ni
uzura nakunari | Is the cogon grass
By dew upon its upper fronds
So soaked?
This morn among the groves
The quail are crying. |
Kanemasa
Lakes 水海
色色のそでもかはるかからころもうちでの浜の波なきよせそ
iroiro no
sode mo kawaru
karakoromo
uchide no hama no
nami na kiyose so | Many hues
Do take on the sleeves
Of my Cathay robe;
Upon the beach where I set forth
Break not so fiercely, o waves! |
Kanemasa
Stones 石
君が代のかずにしとらばうちのぼるさほのかはらの石もたえじな
kimi ga yo no
kazu nishi toraba
uchinoboru
sao no kawara no
ishi mo taeji na | The years of My Lord’s reign:
Should I number up, then they would be as
The upper courses of
The banks of Sao River –
Its stones never-ending! |
Kanemasa
Hotsprings 出
わたつ海ははるけきものをいかにしてありまの山にしほゆいづらん
wata tsu umi wa
harukeki mono o
ika ni shite
arima no yama ni
shioyu izuran | The broad sea sweep
Lies far away, so
Why is it that
On Arima Mountain
A salty hotspring should bubble forth? |
Kanemasa
Stars 星
ひこぼしの心も空にはつ秋の七日の夜をやこひしかるらん
hikoboshi no
kokoro mo sora ni
hatsu’aki no
nanuka no yo o ya
koishikaruran | Does the Herd Boy’s
Heart within the skies
Find early autumn’s
Seventh night
The most dear of all? |
Kanemasa
Clouds 雲
ふじの山おりゐる雲は立ちのぼりけぶりのやがてなるにやあるらん
fuji no yama
ori’iru kumo wa
tachinobori
keburi no yagate
naru ni ya aruran | From the mount of Fuji
Descending, the clouds
Rise again, and
At last into smoke
Do they turn, I wonder? |
Kanemasa
'Simply moving and elegant'