つらきをば思ひはれじとおもへども身をしる雨の所せくかな
| tsuraki oba omoihareji to omoedomo mi o shiru ame no tokoroseku kana | Your cruelty Would never vanish from my thoughts, I felt, but The gentle rain knows me too well— How unmanageable it is! |
Kodashin
37
おもはずにふりそふ雨の歎をばみかさの山をさしてちかはん
| omowazu ni furisou ame no nageki oba mikasa no yama o sashite chikanan | Unexpectedly, Rainfall covers all With grief, as On Mount Mikasa, my umbrella I raise as it draws near. |
Supernumerary Middle Counsellor Toshitada
38
The Kasuga Festival (春日祭)
みかさ山ふりにし代よりあめのしたたなびきてまつるけふにぞありける
| mikasayama furinishi yo yori ame no shita tanabikite matsuru kyō ni zo arikeru | Upon Mount Mikasa Since ancient days of old Beneath the heavens Have folk trailed in celebration As we do, indeed, today! |
Daishin
The Kasuga Festival (春日祭)
こまなめてみかさの山へ行人はあめのしたいのるつかひなりけり
| koma namete mikasa no yama e yuku hito wa ame no shita inoru tsukai narikeri | Steeds in line, Heading to Mount Mikasa, The folk journeying To pray beneath the heavens Are messengers… |
Kanemasa
A poem from Michinoku.
みさぶらひ御笠と申せ宮木野の木の下露は雨にまされり
| misaburaFi mikasa to mause miyagino no ko no sita tuyu Fa ame ni masareri |
O Attendant! “A umbrella, my Lord?” do say, for On Miyagi plain Beneath the trees, the dew Far exceeds the rain! |
When the Go-nijō Regent [Fujiwara no Moromichi] was angry about some problematic circumstances, Nakamasa was at his residence, and did not present this to him directly, but said to the ladies in waiting.
三笠山さすがに蔭に隱ろへてふるかひもなきあめの下哉
| mikasayama sasuga ni kage ni kakuroFete Furu kaFi mo naki ame no sita kana |
On Mount Mikasa Indeed, by the shade I am concealed, yet Continuing on seems pointless Under such a rain. |
Minamoto no Nakamasa
源仲正
Sent to a woman with whom he had been exchanging letters, when he heard that a superior in the same office had been visiting her.
白雲の峰にしもなどかよふらんおなじ三笠の山のふもとを
| shirakumo no mine nishimo nado kayouran onaji mikasa no yama no fumoto o |
These clouds of white, Why do they cluster ‘round the peak? Coming and going From the selfsame Mikasa Mountain’s foot… |
Fujiwara no Yoshitaka (954-974)
Left (Tie).
和歌の浦やなぎたる朝のみをつくし朽ちねかひなき名だに殘らで
| waka no ura yanagitaru asa no miotsukushi kuchine kainaki na dani nokorade |
At Waka Bay In the calm of morning, The channel buoys stand: exhausted I crumble, not even my useless Name remaining to me. |
183
Right (Tie).
思ひかね我夕暮の秋の日に三笠の山はさしはなれにき
| omoikane ware yūgure no aki no hi ni mikasa no yama wa sashihanareniki |
I cannot think on it more: Here, in my evening, Autumn days, Mikasa Mountain is Far away, indeed… |
184
When I heard that a man had gone to the house of a lady I had visited and called himself Sanekata:
あやしくもわが濡れ衣をきたるかな三笠山を人にかられて
| ayasiku mo wa ga nureginu wo kitaru kana mikasayama wo Fito ni kararete |
How strange that Faultless, a rain-spattered robe I wear; My umbrella—a shield—on mount Mikasa Was taken by another! |
Composed as a Moon poem.
三笠山もりくる月の淸ければ神の心もすみやしぬらん
| mikasa yama morikuru tuki no kiyokereba kami no kokoro mo sumi ya sinuran |
Onto Mikasa mountain Drips the moon So clear that The god’s own heart Is clear, I think. |
Fujiwara no Akisuke
Composed on hearing that a man had come calling on a night when it was raining heavily on a woman who had told him not to come again.
み笠山さし離れぬときゝしかど雨もよにとは思ひし物を
| mikasa yama sasiFanarenu to kikisikado ame mo yo ni to Fa omoFisi mono wo |
The Mount of Mikasa Is very far from you, I’d heard; Surely, not in such rain, Or so I did think! |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部