On summer showers, for a folding screen when Shakua’s ninetieth birthday was celebrated.
小山田にひくしめなはのうちはへてくちやしぬらむ五月雨の比
oyamada ni Around the little mountain paddies
The Regent and Chancellor
野べにけぬ袖だに露は置くものをただこの比の秋のゆふ暮
nobe ni kenu sode dani tsuyu wa oku mono o tada kono koro no aki no yūgure Never gone from the plains,
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Evening dew on a journey.
つゆしげみならはぬ野べのかり衣比しもかなし秋の夕ぐれ
tsuyu shigemi narawanu nobe no karigoromo koro shimo kanashi aki no yūgure So heavy the dew
573
ほととぎすきなくさつきの卯花のうきことのはのしげきころかな
hototogisu kinaku satsuki no u no hana no uki koto no ha no shigeki koro kana The cuckoo
529
Love and the Rain.
時鳥なくやさ月のさみだれのはれず物思ふ比にも有るかな
hototogisu naku ya satsuki no samidare no harezu mono’omou koro ni mo aru kana The cuckoo
528
Fukiage, in the province of Kii
夕霞ふきあげのはまの此比は緑もなびく奥つ塩風
yūgasumi The evening haze
157
Topic unknown.
ながらへば又この比やしのばれんうしと見し世ぞいまは恋しき
nagaraeba mata kono koro ya shinobaren ushi to mishi yo zo ima wa koishiki Should long be my life, then [i]
Lord Kiyosuke
Created with Soan . [i] This poem is also listed in Kiyosuke’s personal collection, Kiyosuke-shū (400), with the headnote ‘Sent to the Sanjō Minister of the Centre when he was Middle Captain, at a time I was recollecting bygone days’ (Shinpen kokka taikan henshū iinkai 1987, 496.). The Sanjō Minister of the Centre was Kiyosuke’s cousin, Sanjō Kinnori 三条公教 (1103-1160), who held the position of Middle Captain of the Inner Palace Guards, Left Division between the Fourth Month, Daiji 5 [May 1130] and the Eleventh Month, Hōen 2 [November 1136], dating this poem to that period.
When Spring Arrives in the Old Year 旧年立春
あは雪もまだふる年にたなびけばころまどはせるかすみとぞみる
awayuki mo Snow spume
Toshiyori
下つ毛野みかもの山のこ楢のすまぐはし子ろは誰が笥か持たむ
simotuke no
On Shimotsuke plain,
Anonymous
'Simply moving and elegant'
