夏の夜の臥すかとすれば時鳥鳴く一声に明くる東雲
| natu no yo no Fusu ka to sureba Fototogisu naku Fito kowe ni akuru sinonome |
On a summer night I am just about to take to bed, when, A cuckoo calls, and With a single song Light comes to the eastern sky. |
Ki no Tsurayuki
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Love V: 19
Left (Tie).
聞き馴れてきては心も慰まず聲の通ふは甲斐無かりけり
| kikinarete kite wa kokoro mo nagusamazu koe no kayou wa kai nakarikeri |
Familiar to the ear It comes, but my heart Has no consolation; The interplay of voices is Pointless, indeed. |
Lord Ari’ie
877
Right.
睦言の通はぬ中と成ぬれば聲は聞けども甲斐無かりけり
| mutsugoto no kayowanu naka to narinureba koe wa kikedomo kai nakarikeri |
Sweet words do we Exchange No more, so Even if I hear your voice, it is Pointless, indeed. |
Lord Tsune’ie
878
Left and Right both state: no faults.
In judgement: the conception of both poems ‘interplay of voices’ (koe kayou), is of the same quality.
MYS X: 2239
MYS XVII: 4007
A poem to lament that his feelings of sadness were proving impossible to abate as the time of his return to the capital grew near.
我が背子は玉にもがもな霍公鳥声にあへ貫き手に巻きて行かむ
| wa ga seko pa tama ni mogamona pototogisu kowe ni apenuki te ni makite yukamu |
You, my friend, are As a jewel; On a cuckoo’s Call would I thread you, and Go clasping you in hand… |
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
The above poem was presented by Ōtomo sukune Yakamochi to Secretary Ōtomo sukune Ikenushi. 30th day of the Fourth Month.
Eikyū hyakushu 201
SZS V: 315
Composed in the conception of hearing stags while staying overnight at a port.
湊川夜ふねこぎいづる追風に鹿の声さへ瀬戸わたるなり
| minatogaFa yobune kogi’iduru oFikaze ni sika no kowe saFe seto watarunari |
At Minato River The night boats row out Carried on the wind Do even the stags’ cries Carry across the straits? |
Dōin (1090-1182)
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