In the conception of hidden love, at the Poetry Office Poetry Competition.
きえねたゞしのぶの山のみねの雲かゝる心のあともなきまで
| kiene tada shinobu no yama no mine no kumo kakaru kokoro no ato mo naki made |
If only I could die right now! Shinobu mountain’s Peak with cloud Is wreathed-before, yearning, my heart Leaves no trace… |
Masatsune
消えはてて煙は空にかすむとも雲のけしきを我としらじな
| kiehatete keburi wa sora ni kasumu tomo kumo no keshiki o ware to shiraji na | All but gone, The smoke across the sky Is hazed, yet In the vista of the clouds, You would not know ’tis I. |
211
In reply:
かすめよな思ひ消えなむ煙にもたちおくれてはくゆらざらまし
| kasumeyo na omoi kienamu keburi ni mo tachiokurete wa kuyurazaramashi | O, let it be hazed! Should I from love’s fires, and In smoke Drift away, I would not want to waver! |
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Composed on the obscured moon, not shining yet not clouded, as in the ‘Spring night in Jialing’section of the Bai Shi Wenji.
てりもせずくもりもはてぬはるのよのおぼろ月よにしく物ぞなき
| teri mo sezu kumori mo hatenu haru no yo no oborozukiyo ni shiku mono zo naki |
Not shining And yet not covered by cloud- On a night in spring The misty moon Is beyond compare. |
Ōe no Chisato
大江千里