The Middle of Autumn
Left (Tie)
くもゐよりてりやまさるときよたきのそこにてもみむあきのつきかげ
kumoi yori
teri ya masaru to
kiyotaki no
soko nite mo mimu
aki no tsukikage | From the clouds
Does it shine most bright?
On Kiyotaki’s
Riverbed I see
Autumn moonlight. |
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Right
人しれぬねをやなくらんあきはぎのはなさくまでにしかのこゑせぬ
hito shirenu
ne o ya nakuran
aki hagi no
hana saku made ni
shika no koe senu | That no one may know
Quietly, does he cry?
Until the autumn bush clover
Blooms flower
The stag’s bell stays silent. |
Mitsune
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On the summer moon: when in seclusion at Saga.
淸瀧や浪に塵なき夏の月
kiyotaki ya
nami ni chiri naki
natsu no tsuki |
At the river Kiyotaki
The waters are untouched
By the summer moon. |
(1694)
When he presented a fifty-poem sequence.
みなかみやたえだえこほるいはまよりきよたき河にのこる白浪
minakami ya
taedae kōru
iwama yori
kiyotakigawa ni
nokoru shiranami |
Is the torrent’s face
Only partly frozen?
For between the rocks
In the river Kiyotaki
Remain white waters. |
The Regent and Grand Minister [Fujiwara no Yoshitsune] (1169 – 1206)
藤原良経
As a spring poem:
ふりつみしたかねのみゆきとけにけりきよたき河の水のしらなみ
furitsumishi
takane no miyuki
tokenikeri
kiyotakigawa no
mizu no shiranami |
Deep-fallen upon
The peaks, the fair snows
Have melted;
Kiyotaki River’s
Waters run with whitecaps. |
The Monk Saigyō
西行
'Simply moving and elegant'