Composed at Hiroshi Marōdo Shrine, recalling a visit to Shirayama, when he was Governnor of Kaga.
としふともこしの白山わすれずはかしらのゆきをあはれともみよ
| toshi futomo koshi no shirayama wasurezu wa kashira no yuki o aware tomo miyo | The years have passed, yet The mountains white at Shirayama in Koshi Never will I forget! So, The snow above my brow, O, behold with pity! |
Master of the Left Capital Office Akisuke
雪ふりてあとははかなくたえぬともこしの山道やまずかよはん
| yuki furite ato wa hakanaku taenu tomo koshi no yamamichi yamazu kayowan | In the falling snow Your tracks but briefly Will endure, yet The mountain paths of Koshi Would I endlessly traverse.[i] |
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[i] See: Composed to send off Ōe no Chifuru when he went to Koshi. 君がゆくこしのしら山しらねども雪のまにまにあとはたづねむ kimi ga yuku / koshi no shirayama / shiranedomo / yuki no manimani / ato wa tazunemu ‘My Lord, you go / To the mountains, so white, of Koshi— / I know them not, yet / While the snow endures / Would I seek your trail.’ Lord Fujiwara no Kanesuke (Kokinshū VIII: 391)
Composed to send off Ōe no Chifuru when he went to Koshi.
君がゆくこしのしら山しらねども雪のまにまにあとはたづねむ
| kimi ga yuku kosi no sirayama siranedomo yuki no manimani ato Fa tadunemu | My Lord, you go To the mountains, so white, of Koshi— I know them not, yet While the snow endures Would I seek your trail. |
Lord Fujiwara no Kanesuke
Around the Ninth Month, when I had gone to stay at the palace for a certain reason, and I heard someone’s voice from the adjoining chamber, wrote this on the edge of my mat and had it left there.
うきよには嵐の風にさそはれてこしやまがはに袖もぬらしつ
| ukiyo ni wa arashi no kaze ni sasowarete koshiyamagawa ni sode mo nurashitsu | In this world of sorrows The storming wind Has invited me, and Koshi Mountain’s torrents Have soaked my sleeves. |
When he was asked to compose a thousand-poem sequence by someone, he composed this as a poem on blossom.
み吉野の花の盛をけふ見ればこしの白根に春風ぞ吹く
| miyosino no Fana no sakari wo keFu mireba kosi no sirane ni Faru kaze zo Fuku |
In fair Yoshino The blossoms’ bounty I see today, so In Koshi on Shirane peak The spring breezes will be blowing. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
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