New Year’s Day
もろ人の花見む春のはじめとや今日は思ひのひらけぬるかな
morobito no
hana mimu haru no
hajime to ya
kyō wa omoi no
hirakenuru kana | For crowds of folk
Does blossom viewing springtime
Begin, I wonder?
Today such thoughts
Have opened up! |
Daishin
New Year’s Day
よきことをますみの鏡今日見ればかねて千年のかげぞうかべる
yoki koto o
masumi no kagami
kyō mireba
kanete chitose no
kage zo ukaberu | When pleasant things
In the clearest of glasses
Today I see,
Already a thousand years’
Sights have floated there… |
Higo
New Year’s Day
冬の夜を旅の空にてあかしてや都に春の今朝は来るらむ
fuyu no yo o
tabi no sora nite
akashite ya
miyako ni haru no
kesa wa kururamu | A winter’s night
Spent under the skies a’travelling;
With breaking dawn
To the capital has spring
Come this morning, I wonder? |
Kanemasa
New Year’s Day
うちなびき今日立ちかへるとしなみのよらぬみぎははあらじとぞ思ふ
uchinabiki
kyō tachikaeru
toshinami no
yoranu migiwa wa
araji to zo omou | Drifting along,
Today breaks
The year’s wave –
An untouched shore
Shall there be none, I feel! |
Tadafusa
New Year’s Day
今日よりは我をもちゐの増鏡うれしきかげをうつしてぞ見む
kyō yori wa
ware o mochi’i no
masukagami
ureshiki kage o
utsushite zo mimu | From today
Holding me within shall
This glass so clear
A joyous face
Reflected see! |
Toshiyori
New Year’s Day
万代の春のはじめの今日しよりつかへまつらむとしにあひつつ
yorozu yo no
haru no hajime no
kyō shi yori
tsukaematsuramu
toshi ni aitsutsu | Ten thousand years of
Spring begins
From today
Shall we serve humbly
Greeting the coming year… |
Nakazane
New Year’s Day
たび人のかりのしの屋に年くれて今日ふたとせになりにけるかな
tabibito no
kari no shinoya ni
toshi kurete
kyō futa tose ni
narinikeru kana | For a traveller
In a rude hut roofed with coarse bamboo
The year comes to an end, and
From today, a second year
Has arrived! |
Akinaka
家なしも江戸の元日したりけり
ie nashi mo
edo no ganjitsu
shitarikeri |
No house to my name, yet
New Year’s Day in Edo
Have I spent. |
On New Year’s Day.
元日は田ごとの日こそ戀しけれ
ganjitsu wa
tagoto no hi koso
koishikere |
On New Year’s Day,
In every rice paddy the sun is more
Dear. |
(1689)
On New Year’s Day.
元日やおもへばさびし秋の暮
ganjitsu ya
omoeba sabishi
aki no kure |
On New Year’s Day,
Now I think of it, how sad is
An autumn evening. |
(1683)
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