[One of] two poems composed by Yamanoue no Okura listing the flowers of the autumn fields.
芽之花 乎花葛花 瞿麦之花 姫部志 又藤袴 朝皃之花
萩の花尾花葛花なでしこの花をみなへしまた藤袴朝顔の花
| pagi no pana wobana kudupana nadesiko no pana wominapesi mata pudibakama asagapo no pana | Bush clover blooms, Silver grass and kudzu, Pinks, Valerian And fujibakama, Morning glory blooms. |
Yamanoue no Okura
山上憶良
At a time when I confined as a result of many observances, and I found myself unable to keep calm for thinking of her:
もろともに起き伏し物を思ふともいざ常夏の露となりけむ
| morotomo ni okiFusi mono wo omoFu tomo iza tokonatu no tuyu to narikemu |
Both Awake and abed Are you in my thoughts; Look! Well-bedded pinks: Dewfall upon them should we be! |
Pinks.
いつしかと起きうからでもみゆるかな咲くやあしたの床夏の花
| itsushika to okiukarademo miyuru kana saku ya ashita no tokonatsu no hana |
Eagerly to Rise is hard, indeed, yet Might I catch a glimpse Do you flower with the sunup O pink blossoms? |
Kei’un incorporates a play-on-words into his allusion, between asita no toko 朝の床 ‘bed at sunup’ in Sosei’s poem, and ashita no tokonatsu 朝の床夏 ‘pinks at sunup’ in his own.
On pinks: on looking at a picture of Masashige, and thinking of his unbreakable spirit.
なでし子にかゝるなみだや楠の露
| nadeshiko ni kakaru namida ya kusu no tsuyu |
For the pinks (a darling child) Tears shed are Dewdrops from the camphor tree. |
(1691)
On pinks.
醉て寢むなでしこ咲ける石の上
| youte nemu nadeshiko sakeru ishi no ue |
Drunk, I’ll lay me down to sleep where Pinks bloom Upon the rocks. |
(1687)
Topic unknown.
來て見よと妹が家路に告げやらむわがひとり寢るとこなつの花
| kite miyo to imo ga iFedi ni tugeyaramu wa ga Fitori neru tokonatu no Fana |
‘Come and see!’ Take the path to my darling’s house, And tell her that- I sleep alone In bed-where the pink flower. |
Sone no Yoshitada
曾禰好忠
During the Tenryaku period, His Majesty sent this poem to the Hirohata Miyasudokoro when she had not visited him for some considerable time.
山がつの垣ほに生ふる撫子に思よそへぬ時の閒ぞなき
| yama gatu no kakiFo ni oFuru nadesiko ni omoFi yosoFenu toki no ma zo naki |
The mountain folk Have growing in their fence Some pinks-sweet thing My thoughts dwell on you With no space in-between. |
Emperor Murakami (926-967; r. 946-967)
A poem composed at a poetry competition held by Her Majesty, the Empress Dowager, during the reing of the Kanpyō emperor.
我のみやあはれとおもはむきりぎりすなくゆふかげのやまとなでしこ
| ware nomi ya aFare to omoFan kirigirisu naku yuFukage no yamato nadesiko | Is it only I Who loves it so? Crickets Chirping in the evening shadows On the wild pinks. |
Dharma Master Sosei
素性法師