きくの露わかゆばかりにそでふれて花のあるじに千代はゆづらむ
| kiku no tsuyu wakayu bakari ni sode furete hana no aruji ni chiyo wa yuzuramu | Chrysanthemum dew a little Youth, just, will Bring to my sleeves; To the flower’s mistress I would gift a thousand generations! |
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Tsurayuki-shū 321
On an old woman wiping her face with chrysanthemum dew on the ninth day of the Ninth Month.
けふまでに我をおもへば菊の上の露は千年の玉にざりける
| kyō made ni ware o omoeba kiku no ue no tsuyu wa chitose no tama nizarikeru | Up until this day Have you thought of me, so Upon the chrysanthemums These dewdrops, thousand year Jewels do not seem to be. |
Ki no Tsurayuki
Koresada shinnō-ke uta’awase 36
Koresada shinnō-ke uta’awase 35
もみぢばのながるるあきはかはごとににしきあらふとひとはみるらん[1]
| momijiba no nagaruru aki wa kawa goto ni nishiki arau to hito wa miruramu | The scarlet leaves Flow and in autumn By every river Washing their brocade Folk can be seen! |
ひしくればよるもめかれじきくのはなあきすぎぬればあふべきものか
| hi shi kureba yoru mo mekareji kiku no hana aki suginureba aubeki mono ka | When the day is here, At night you do escape my sight, O, chrysanthemums; When autumn has passed by, I wonder shall we meet again? |
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Kanpyō no ōntoki kiku awase 19
Kanpyō no ōntoki kiku awase 18
Kanpyō no ōntoki kiku awase 17
Composed on someone passing through chrysanthemums to reach a sage’s dwelling.
濡れて干す山路の菊の露のまにいつか千歳を我は経にけむ
| nurete Fosu yamazi no kiku no tuyu no ma ni ituka titose wo ware Fa Fenikemu | Drenched, then drying On this mountain path with chrysanthemum Dewdrops—in that little space Has, somehow, a thousand years Passed me by? |
Sosei
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This poems was included in Kokinshū (V: 273), where it has a somewhat different headnote.