Plum at my lodging while travelling.
ひとりぬるくさのまくらのうつりがは垣ねのむめのにほひなりけり
| hitori nuru kusa no makura no utsuriga wa kakine no mume no nioi narikeri | Sleeping alone On a grassy pillow, The shifting scent is Plum by the brushwood fence Fragrant. |
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思ひねの夢のうき橋とだえして覚むる枕にきゆるおもかげ
| omoine no yume no ukihashi todaeshite samuru makura ni kiyuru omokage | Filled with love, I slept, but My floating bridge of dreams Is broken: On waking, from my pillow Your face fades away…[i] |
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[i] See: When he composed a fifty-poem sequence for Cloistered Prince Shukaku. 春のよの夢のうきはしとだえしてみねにわかるゝよこ雲のそら haru no yo no / yume no ukihashi / todaeshite / mine ni wakaruru / yokogumo no sora ‘A Spring night’s / Floating bridge of dreams / Is broken – / Split by the peaks, / The long clouds trail across the sky.’ Fujiwara no Sada’ie (Shinkokinshū I: 38)
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A summer poem, when she presented a hundred poem sequence.
かへりこぬむかしをいまとおもひねの夢の枕ににほふ橘
| kaerikonu mukashi o ima to omoine no yume no makura ni niou tachibana | Never to return is The past, but in the present It fills my sleepy thoughts A’dreaming on my pillow With the scent of orange blossom.[1] |
Princess Shokushi
[1] An allusive variation on: Sent to a lady with whom he had once been intimate, after some years had passed. いにしへのしづのをだまき繰りかへし昔を今になすよしもがな inishie no / shizu no odamaki / kurikaeshi / mukashi o ima ni / nasu yoshi mogana ‘In times long gone / Thread upon a bobbin was / Wound back— / Just so, the present into the past / I wish we could make!’ It seems, though, that the lady thought nothing of it. (Ise monogatari 65)
Kinkai wakashū 598
かかるをりも有りけるものを手枕のひまもる風を何いとひけん
| kakaru ori mo arikeru mono o tamakura no hima moru kaze o nani itoiken | At such times as these It comes to me: When you were pillowed on my arm, What about the draught slipping through the gaps Was so hateful?[i] |
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[i] See: Topic unknown. た枕のすきまの風もさむかりき身はならはしの物にぞ有りける tamakura no / sukima no kaze mo / samukariki / mi wa narawashi no / mono ni zo arikeru ‘When you were pillowed on my arm / The draught into the gaps between / Was cold, but / I did grow accustomed to it— / That’s how it was…’ Anonymous (Shūishū XIV: 901)
SIS XIV: 901
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しながどりゐなののはらのささ枕まくらの霜ややどる月かげ
| shinagadori inano no hara no sasamakura makura no shimo ya yadoru tsukikage | Upon waterbird-filled Inano Plain, with A pillow of bamboo— And the frost upon my pillow is The moonlight’s lodging…[i] |
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[i] See: Topic unknown. しながどりゐなのをゆけばありまやま夕ぎり立ちぬやどはなくして shinagadori / inano o yukeba / arimayama / yūgiri tachinu / yado wa nakushite ‘Through waterbird-filled / Inano I go, as / Upon Arima Mountain / Evening mist has risen, and / Me without a lodging…’ Anonymous (Shinkokinshū X: 910)
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Frost at a journey’s lodging
袖まくら霜おくとこの苔のうへにあかすばかりのさよの中やま
| sode makura shimo oku toko no koke no ue ni akasu bakari no sayo no nakayama | With my sleeve for my pillow, and Frost falling on my bed Atop the moss, Swiftly breaks the dawn At Sayo-no-Nakayama.[i] |
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[i] See: On a storm at one’s lodgings on a journey, for the Iwashimizu Poetry Match. 岩がねのとこに嵐をかたしきてひとりやねなんさよの中山 iwa ga ne no / toko ni arashi o / katashikite / hitori ya nenan / sayo no Nakayama ‘At the crags’ foot / Lies my bed with the storm wind / Alone, spread upon me— / Lonely, must I sleep? / At Sayo-no-Nakayama…’ Lord Ari’ie (Shinkokinshū X: 962)