Composed when looking at a drawing of Takasago on a screen in the Hall of the Four Heavenly Kings.
ふく風の色こそ見えねたかさごのおのへの松に秋はきにけり
| fuku kaze no iro koso mienu takasago no onoe no matsu ni aki wa kinikeri |
In the gusting wind There’s no colour to be seen Yet to Takasago’s Pine-treed peaks Autumn has come. |
Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Composed on the spirit of remnants of snow, when he presented a hundred poem sequence to Retired Emperor Horikawa (1079-1107; r. 1086-1107).
春きては花とも見よとかたをかの松のうは葉にあは雪ぞふる
| haru kite wa hana tomo miyo to kataoka no matsu no uwaba ni awayuki zo furu |
‘Spring has come,’ they say, ‘Look! It’s blossom!’ On the mountainside Upon the pine-tops A froth of snow is falling. |
Fujiwara no Nakazane (1057-1118)
A New Year’s Day poem, composed on the Hie shrine.
さゞなみやしがのはまゝつふりにけりたがよにひけるねの日なるらん
| sazanami ya shiga no hamamatsu furinikeri ta ga yo ni hikeru ne no hi naruran |
Where the wavelets strike On Shiga beach the pine trees Have grown old; Whose reign might have seen you plucked On a new year’s day, I wonder. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成
Composed as a spring poem, when she presented a hundred poem sequence.
山ふかみ春ともしらぬ松のとにたえだえかかる雪のたまみづ
| yama fukami haru tomo shiranu matsu no to ni taedae kakaru yuki no tamamizu |
Deep within the mountains That Spring has come remains unknown; On my pinewood door, Slowly strike Droplets of snowmelt. |
Princess Shokushi
式子内親王
After he had left Mount Takano, he went to Futamigaura in the province of Ise and, hearing that the sacred mountain in the Grand Shrine was called the Mountain of the Divine Way, he composed this, feeling that Dainichi Nyorai had manifested there.
深くいりて神路の奧を尋ぬれば又うゑもなき峰のまつ風
| Fukaku irite kamudi no woku tadunureba mata uwe mo naki mine no matu kaze |
If to the heights Of the Divine Way One were to tread, Still-with nought above The peak-’twould be the pine-tree wind that blows. |
The Monk En’i
Composed in the conception of the moon over a shrine, at the same poetry competition.
ふりにける松物いはゞとひてまし昔もかくや住の江の月
| Furinikeru matu mono iFaba toFitemasi mukasi mo kaku ya sumi no e no tuki |
The ancient Pines-if only they could speak! For I would ask, Of old was it as bright: The moon on Sumiyoshi Bay? |
The Minister of the Right [Fujiwara no Sanesada]
Composed on the spirit of the beginning of the year, when she presented a hundred poem sequence during the reign of Retired Emperor Horikawa
行末をまつぞひさしき君がへむ千代の始の子日と思へば
| yukusuwe wo matu zo Fisasiki kimi ga Femu tiyo no Fazime no ne no Fi to omoFeba |
For the future Wait the pines, eternal, My Lord shall see A thousand years-the first Year’s Day’s today, I feel. |
Higo
Composed for a picture of Sumiyoshi on a sliding door in the house of the Ichijô Minister of the Left [Minamoto no Masanobu].
すぎゝにしほどをばすてつ今年より千代のかずつむ住吉の松
| sukigi ni si Fodo wo ba sutetu kotosi yori tiyo no kazu tumu sumiyosi no matu |
The past We will abandon; From this year forth Of a thousand years in number make a pile, We pines of Sumiyoshi! |
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu