Love without meeting
Left (Win)
あふことのかたきしなればしらなみのたちよるかずはわれのみぞしる
au koto no katakishi nareba shiranami no tachiyoru kazu wa ware nomi zo shiru | Meeting you is A distant cliff, so The whitecaps’ Numbers breaking there I alone do know. |
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Right
あはむとはおもひわたれどふじかはのすまずはつひにかげもみえじを
awamu to wa omoi wataredo fujikawa no sumazu wa tsui ni kage mo mieji o | To meet her Passionately did I cross, yet The Fuji River Was so clouded that at the last Her shape I could not see at all… |
Mitsune
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Felicitations 賀
君が代はうれしきたびにきる杖のつもれる数を知る人ぞなき
kimi ga yo wa ureshiki tabi ni kiru tsue no tsumoreru kazu o shiru hito zo naki | For my Lord’s reign This is such a joyous time – Staves of celebration cut In numbers piled so high that None can count them. |
Akinaka
New Year Archery
はるさればかたやたばさみともねうち我がかつゆみのかずぞかさなる
haru sareba kataya tabasami tomone uchi wa ga katsu yumi no kazu zo kasanaru | When the spring does come, An arrow grasped in hand, Bracers snapping My victorious bows’ Numbers mount up! |
Nakazane
'Simply moving and elegant'