Round Thirty-Seven
Left (Tie)
むば玉のよやふけぬらんさをしかの声すみのぼるをのの草ぶし
mubatama no
yo ya fukenuran
saoshika no
koe suminoboru
ono no kusabushi | Might lily-seed dark
Night have fallen?
The stag’s
Cry clearly climbs
From where he lies among the meadow grasses. |
Takasuke
73
Right
秋のよはつまどふ鹿の深山出でていまだ旅なるをのの草ぶし
aki no yo wa
tsumadou shika no
miyama idete
imada tabi naru
ono no kusabushi | On an autumn night,
Seeking his bride, the stag
Emerges from the mountains’ depths,
And now on his travels
Lies among the meadow grasses. |
Shimotsuke
74
Left and Right’s ‘lies among the meadow grasses’ have no merits or faults between them. A pleasant tie.
The end of winter-beginning of the Twelfth Month.
みやまにははやまのあらしあらげなりしひのかざをれいくそかかれり
miyama ni wa
hayama no arashi
aragenari
shii no kaza’ore
ikuso kakareri | Deep within the mountains
Across the timber slopes the storm wind
Rages;
Brushwood is broken by the wind
O’er countless tens of trees. |
山しげみ木の下がくれ行く水のおと聞きしよりわれやわするる
yama shigemi
ko no shitagakure
yuku mizu no
oto kikishi yori
ware ya wasururu | In the mountains lush,
Hidden beneath the trees
Runs waters’
Soft sounds since I heard
How can I ever forget her? |
412
A spring poem, from when he composed a fifty-poem sequence at the residence of Cloistered Prince Shukaku.
山のはもそらもひとつに見ゆるかなこれやかすめるはるのあけぼの
yama no ha mo
sora mo hitotsu ni
miyuru kana
kore ya kasumeru
haru no akebono | The mountains’ edge and
The sky, too, as one
Do seem!
This is the hazy
Dawn in springtime! |
Minamoto no Moromitsu
源師光
A poem by Prince Yuhara, when he was in Yoshino.
吉野なる菜摘の川の川淀に鴨ぞ鳴くなる山蔭にして
yosino naru
natumi no kapa no
kapa yodo ni
kamo zo nakunaru
yama kage ni site | In Yoshino
From the River Natsumi’s
Deep, still pools
The ducks cry
In the mountains’ shade. |
Prince Yuhara
ひとしれぬなみだやそらにくもりつつあきのしぐれとふりまさるらむ[1]
hito shirenu
namida ya sora ni
kumoritsutsu
aki no shigure to
furimasaruramu | Unknown to all
With tears the skies
Are ever clouded;
The autumn drizzle
Seems to fall the harder. |
47
あきくれば山とよむまでなくしかに我おとらめやひとりぬるよは
aki kureba
yama toyomu made
naku shika ni
ware otorame ya
hitori nuru yo wa | When the autumn comes
The mountains echo with
The belling stags;
Will they lose to me
These nights I sleep alone? |
48
[1] This poem appears in Fubokushō (5546), where it is attributed to [Ariwara no] Motokata.
あきかぜにすむよもぎふのかれゆけばこゑのことごとむしぞなくなる
akikaze ni
sumu yomogyū no
kareyukeba
koe no kotogoto
mushi zo nakunaru | With the autumn wind,
Their home, the mugwort,
Begins to wither, so
Every single
Insect cries out. |
45
みるごとにあきにもあるかたつたひめもみぢそむとや山はきるらん[1]
miru goto ni
aki ni mo aru ka
tatsutahime
momiji somu to ya
yama wa kiruran | Each time I see her
Is it autumn?
Princess Tatsuta,
I wonder, are she dying scarlet leaves,
So that she may wear the mountains? |
46
[1] This poem occurs in Kokin rokujō (648); and also in Tomonori-shū (27), suggesting that it may be by Ki no Tomonori.
君をおきてこと恋するか奥山に水恋鳥の水恋ふかこと
kimi o okite
koto koisuru ka
okuyama ni
mizukoitori no
mizukou ka koto |
Should I abandon you, and
Find another love?
In the mountains’ heart,
Does the ruddy kingfisher
Love the water? |
Minamoto no Shunrai
源俊頼
'Simply moving and elegant'
