From among the poems he composed daily in Bun’ei 7 [1270].
冬の雨の名残のきりはあけ過ぎてくもらぬ空にのこる月かげ
| fuyu no ame no nagori no kiri wa akesugite kumoranu sora ni nokoru tsukikage | The winter rain’s Remnants of mist Have cleared away, and In the cloudless sky Lingers moonlight. |
Minister of Popular Affairs, Lord Tame’ie
Topic unknown.
むばたまのよるのみふれる白雪はてる月影のつもるなりけり
| mubatama no yoru nomi Fureru sirayuki Fa teru tukikage no tumoru narikeri | Lily-seed dark The night, where fallen Snow, so white, Shines with the moonlight Drifting, piled high. |
Anonymous
| Shinpen kokka taikan no. | |
| Heian-chō uta’awase taisei no. | 12 |
| Title | 或所歌合 |
| Romanised Title | Aru tokoro no uta’awase |
| Translated Title | Poetry Contest held in a Certain Place |
| Alternative Title(s) | |
| Date | Night, 15/8 Shōtai 4 [30.9.901] |
| Extant Poems | 2 |
| Sponsor | |
| Identifiable Participants | |
| Judgements | N |
| Topics | Autumn |
Only the date of this contest remains, along with two of its poems. Given the season, it would clearly have been an autumn-themed event and, as the 15th day of the Eighth Month was when conventionally the moon was at its brightest, it is not surprising that it seems to have been held at night, and contained at least some poems where the moon was a theme.
Of the two surviving poems, one was included in Fubokushō (XIV: 5840), while the other is only recorded here.
いそのかみふるのやしろにはふくずもあきにしなれば色かはりけり
| isonokami Furu no yasiro ni haFu kuzu mo aki ni shi nareba iro kaFarikeri | In Isonokami At the ancient shrine of Furu Even the creeping kudzu vine When the autumn comes Does change its hues. |
1
Right
山のはももみぢてちりぬ月影のかくるるところなくなりぬべし
| yama no Fa mo momidite tirinu tukikage no kakururu tokoro nakunarinubesi | Along the mountains’ edge Scarlet leaves have scattered In the moonlight A place concealed Is there none, at all. |
2
すずむしのこゑにぞあかぬたまさかにゆきあふよひのかげをまつにも
| suzumushi no koe ni zo akanu tamasaka ni yukiau yoi no kage o matsu ni mo | Of the bell crickets’ Song, I never tire— Even when a rare Night’s coming together In moonlight I do await… |
Lady Jijū
On the sound of a flute under the moon.
月かげにこちくの声ぞ聞ゆなるふりにしいもは待ちやかぬらん
| tsuki kage ni kochiku no koe zo kikoyu naru furinishi imo wa machi ya kanuran | In the moonlight A flute’s notes Do sound— My dear old girl: Does she find it hard to wait, I wonder? |
Seafolk 泉郎
ぬれ衣いまぞはつきにかけてほすかづきしてけりうらのあま人
| nuregoromo ima zo wa tsuki ni kakete hosu kazukishitekeri ura no amabito | Their soaking garb Now in the moonlight is Hung to dry; Diving have been The fisher-girls upon the beach… |
Kanemasa
Katsura 桂
なが月の月の光のさゆるかなかつらの枝にしもやおくらん
| nagatsuki no tsuki no hikari no sayuru kana katsura no eda ni shimo ya okuran | In the longest month The moonlight is Chill, indeed! Upon the branches of the silver trees I wonder, does frost fall? |
Kanemasa
Left (Tie).
故郷に見し面影も宿りけり不破の関屋の板間洩る月
| furusato ni mishi omokage mo yadorikeri fuwa no sekiya no itama moru tsuki |
Back home I saw her face, and It lodges here, At the Barrier House at Fuwa, In the moonlight leaking through the boards. |
A Servant Girl
1007
Right.
人恋ふる我ながめよ思けり須磨の関屋の有明の月
| hito kouru ware nagameyo omoikeri suma no sekiya no ariake no tsuki |
Loving you, I will ever gaze, I thought, At the Barrier House at Suma On the dawntime moon. |
Nobusada
1008
The Right state: the Left’s poem is good. The Left state: the Right’s poem lacks any faults to indicate.
In judgement: the Left’s ‘Barrier House at Fuwa’ (fuwa no sekiya) followed by ‘the moonlight leaking through the boards’ (itama moru tsuki) is truly charming. In addition, if one wonders why ‘I saw her face’ (mishi omokage mo) has been used, it is certainly reminiscent of the poem ‘The dawntime moon, too, lodges in the waters clear’, but an improvement on it. It is difficult to say, however, that the Right’s ‘At the Barrier House at Suma on the dawntime moon’ (suma no sekiya no ariake no tsuki) is in any way inferior.
五月雨の－黄昏時は－月影の－朧けにやは－我が人を待つ
| samidare no tasogaredoki Fa tukikage no oboroke ni ya Fa wa ga Fito o matu |
Drizzle at The hour of dusk Makes the moonlight Mistily uncertain As I await my man… |
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
凡河内躬恒
Composed on the conception of the moon by the sea.
眺めやる心の果てぞなかりける明石の沖に澄める月影
| nagameyaru kokoro no Fate zo nakarikeru akasi no oki ni sumeru tsukikage |
Gazing out I find my heart’s last hope Is not gone; Above the offing at Akashi bright and Clear is the moonlight. |
Shun’e
俊恵