あしひきの山下とよみ行く水の時ともなくも恋ひわたるかも
| asipiki no yamasita toyomi yuku midu no toki tomokaku mo kopiwataru kamo | Leg-wearying, The mountain’s foot resounds with Rushing waters Endlessly – As flows my love for you! |
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MYS IX: 1682
A poem presented to Prince Osakabe, composed on viewing the image of a sage.
とこしへに夏冬行けや裘扇放たぬ山に住む人
| tokosipe ni natu puyu yuke ya kapagoromo apugi patanu yama ni sumu pito |
Not eternally, As summer and winter’s passage, yet His coat of fur, and Fan, never will he release This mountain-dwelling man… |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
柿本人麻呂歌集
MYS X: 2219
Composed on paddy fields.
足引の山田作る子秀でずとも縄だに延へよ守ると知るがね
| asipiki no yamada tukuru ko pidezu tomo napa dani paeyo mori to siru gane |
The leg-straining Moutain paddies’ offspring Have yet to show, but At least string ropes there, so All know they are warded! |
MYS VI: 1057
鹿背の山木立を茂み朝さらず来鳴き響もす鴬の声
| kase no yama kodati wo sigemi asa sarazu kinaki toyomosu ugupisu no kowe |
On Kase Mountain The groves are so lush that Unable to wait for morning Comes the echo of The warbler’s song! |
Tanabe no Sakimaro Collection
田辺福麻呂歌集
Chūjō miyasudokoro uta’awase
Composed when it was said that a poetry competition was to be held at the residence of the Ninna Middle Captain Lady of the Bedchamber.
花のちることやわびしき春霞たつたの山のうぐひすのこゑ
| Fana no tiru koto ya wabisiki Farugasumi tatuta no yama no uguFisu no kowe |
The falling of the flowers Is sad, indeed; In the spring haze On Tatsuta Mountain A warbler cries… |
Fujiwara no Chikage
藤原後蔭
1
Composed when it was said that a poetry competition was to be held at the residence of the Ninna Middle Captain Lady of the Bedchamber.
惜しと思ふ心は糸に縒られなむ散る花ごとに貫きてとどめむ
| osi to omoFu kokoro Fa ito ni yorarenamu tiru Fana goto ni nukite todomemu |
A regretful Heart with threads Does seem to be entangled; Every single scattered bloom Will I thread on them to keep. |
Sosei
素性
2
Minbukyō yukihira no uta’awase 9
Left
明けぬ間に箱根の山の時鳥二声とだに鳴き渡るらむ
| akenu ma ni Fakone no yama no Fototogisu Futakowe to dani nakiwataruramu |
Before the dawn no Hakone Mountain Cuckoos’ Twin calls simply Seem to sing back and forth |
17
Right (Win)
深山出でていづこも旅ぞ時鳥ここにを結べ草の枕は
| miyama idete iduko mo tabi zo Fototogisu koko ni wo musube kusa no makura wa |
Emerging from the mountains’ depths Where does your journey take you, O, cuckoo? Here will I twine strands Of grass for my pillow… |
18
Minbukyō yukihira no uta’awase 4
Left
月夜には手倉の山の時鳥声も隠れぬ物にざりける
| tukiyo ni Fa tekura no yama no Fototogisu kowe mo kakurenu mono ni zarikeru |
On a moonlit night On Tekura Mountain that The cuckoo Does conceal his call Is not true at all… |
7
Right (Win)
住む里は篠部をの森の時鳥木の下声ぞ標なりける
| sumu sato Fa sinobe no mori no Fototogisu ko no sita kowe zo sirube narikeru |
To my dwelling In Shinobe Forest are The cuckoo Calls beneath the trees A signpost. |
8
Minbukyō yukihira no uta’awase 2
Left (Win)
おぼつかな音羽の山の時鳥さすがにいはぬ言な頼めそ
| obotukana otoFa no yama no Fototogisu sasuga ni iFanu koto na tanome so |
I wonder about Wingbeats on Otowa Mountain, The cuckoo: Truly in unsaid Words place no trust! |
3
Right
誰とかは言はかたらふ時鳥まづ我が聞くにいはで渡るは
| tare to ka Fa koto Fa kataraFu Fototogisu madu wa ga kiku ni iFade wataru Fa |
To whom is it that Tales you tell, O, Cuckoo? When first I listen, Wordless, do you fly back and forth… |
4
SZS II: 89
Composed as a poem on blossom.
桜咲く比良の山風吹くままに花になりゆく志賀の浦浪
| sakura saku Fira no yamakaze Fuku mama ni Fana ni nariyuku siga no uranami |
Cherries flower on Hira Mountain while Breezes blow All turned to blossom are The waves on Shiga’s shore. |
Middle Captain of the Inner Palace Guards, Left Division, [Fujiwara no] Yoshitsune
左近中将良経
SZS I: 11
Composed as a poem on haze.
見渡せばそこと印の杉もなし霞のうちや三輪の山本
| miwataseba soko to sirusi no sugi mo nasi kasumi no uti ya miwa no yamamoto |
When I gaze across As sentinels there No cedars stand; Are you within the haze, O, Miwa Mountain’s foot? |
Captain of the Middle Palace Guards, Left Division, [Fujiwara no] Takafusa
左兵衛督隆房