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時鳥今宵はとまれ片岡の朝の原に帰りやせぬ
| Fototogisu koyoFi Fa tomare katawoka no asita no Fara ni kaFeri ya senu |
O, cuckoo Stay here this night, and Down the hillside With the morning to the plain Will you not return? |
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我が宿に声な惜しみそ時鳥通ふ千里のゆきはてぞ此は
| wa ga yado ni kowe na osimi so Fototogisu kayoFu tisato no yukiFate zo ko Fa |
At my home I regret not your song, O, cuckoo, For your thousand league Journey’s end lies here. |
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片岡の小柴まじりに生ひしける柞の小枝初紅葉せり
| kataoka no ofushi majiri ni oishikeru hahaso no koeda hatsu momiji seri |
On the slopes Mingled with the brush Have grown Branchlets of oak – Just tinged with autumn hues. |
Minamoto no Kane’aki
源兼昌
When she was on a pilgrimage to Kamo, someone remarked one dawn that a cuckoo was calling, and as the treetops in Kataoka seemed particularly fine…
| hototogisu koe matsu hodo wa kataoka no mori no shizuku ni tachi ya nuremashi |
The cuckoo’s Call-while we await it In Kataoka Forest, will the dew drops Wet us where we stand, I wonder? |
Murasaki Shikibu
紫式部
Composed on the spirit of Spring Rain, when hundred-poem sequences were presented during the reign of Retired Emperor Horikawa (1079-1107; r. 1086-1107).
春雨のふりそめしより片岡の裾野の原ぞあさみどりなる
| Farusame no Furisomesi yori katawoka no susono no Fara zo asamidori naru |
Since a spring shower Started falling, In Kataoka, The field of Susono Has turned the palest green. |
Fujiwara no Mototoshi
藤原基俊
Topic unknown.
霧立て雁ぞなくなる片岡の朝の原はもみぢしぬらむ
| kiri tatite kari zo nakunaru katawoka no asita no Fara Fa momidisinuramu |
From within the rising mists Sound the calling geese; Kataoka Field in the morn Will have ta’en on Autumn’s hues. |
Anonymous.