Plovers before the moon.
玉つしま和歌の松ばら夢にだにまだみぬ月に千どり鳴くなり
| tamatsushima waka no matsubara yume ni dani minu tsuki ni chidori naku nari | Tamatsu Isle’s Pine groves at Waka: Not even in my dreams Have I seen such a moon With the plovers calling. |
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Kyōgoku no miyasudokoro uta’awase 11
Original
かすがののけふのみゆきをまつばらのちとせのはるはきみがまにまに
| kasugano no kyō no miyuki o matsubara no chitose no haru wa kimi ga manimani | On Kasuga Plain Today’s progress Awaited have the pine groves, A thousand years of springtimes, Just as my Lady’s thoughts. [1] |
Mitsune
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Left
ゆくさきのはるをとほくしまかすればいまはちとせのうたがひもなし
| yukusaki no haru o tōkushi makasureba ima wa chitose no utagai mo nashi | Future Springtimes to distant times May we entrust, for Now that she will live a thousand years more There is no doubt, at all. |
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Right (Win)
むれたちてわれをまつてふかすがののみどりふかくやおもひそめけむ
| muretachite ware o matsu chō kasugano no midori fukaku ya omoisomekemu | Growing crowded together, and Awaiting me are the pines On Kasuga Plain— Why should their green so deeply Seem to think of me? |
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[1] A minor variant of this poem occurs in Mitsune-shū (325) with the same headnote as for poem (22), above.
Tsurayuki-shū 717
Composed on the night when coming-of-age ceremonies were held for the son and daughter of the Captain of the Outer Palace Guards, in the Twelfth Month, Shōhei 5 [935].
大原やをしほの山の小松原はやこだかかれ千世のかげみん
| ōhara ya oshio no yama no komatsubara haya kodaka kare chiyo no kage min | In Ōhara On Oshio Mountain Among the young pine groves Fly swiftly, fledgling hawk, For you will see the light of a thousand generations! |
Ki no Tsurayuki
Eikyū hyakushu 450
SIS XVIII: 1208
When a woman who had long been an acquaintence of Left Middle Captain Naritoki departed for Tsukushi, Lord Sanekata, went as a messenger to Usa, and she gave this to him out of concern.
今日迄は生の松原いきたれど我身のうさに歎てぞふる
| keFu made Fa iki no matubara ikitaredo wa ga mi no usa ni nagekite zo Furu |
Up until today Among the pine groves of Iki Have I lived, yet In my desolation Am I drowned in grief. |
The Daughter of Fujiwara no Nochiō
藤原後生女