Composed on the conception of ice first freezing.
をし鳥のうきねのとこやあれぬらんつららゐにけりこやの池水
wosidori no
ukine no toko ya
arenuran
turara winikeri
koya no ikemidu | Have the mandarin ducks’
Drifting, dozing had their bed
Disturbed, perhaps?
Icicles have formed
O’er the waters of Koya Pond… |
Supernumerary Middle Counsellor Tsunefusa
権中納言経房
Composed on ice in a hundred poem sequence.
しながどりゐなのふしはらかぜさえてこやのいけみづこほりしにけり
sinagadori
wina no FusiFara
kaze saete
koya no ike midu
koForisinikeri | Grebes aligned at
Fushihara in Ina, where
The wind blows chill and
The waters of Koya Pond
Have frozen. |
Lord Fujiwara no Nakazane
Frogs (蛙)
いかばかりいぶせかるらんこやの池の水草のもとにすだく蛙は
ika bakari
ibusekaruran
koya no ike no
mikusa no moto ni
sudaku kawazu wa |
How very
Depressed they seem
At Koya Pond
At the grasses’ roots:
The swarming frogs. |
Minamoto no Kanemasa
源兼昌
'Simply moving and elegant'