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岩なみの木ずゑにかかる心ちしてむすばまほしき庭の松風
iwanami no
kozue ni kakaru
kokochishite
musubamahoshiki
niwa no matsukaze | The waves breaking on the rocks,
Are clinging to the treetops,
I feel;
O, to bind them with
The breeze through my garden’s pines. |
The Monk Ken’en
つらしともいざやいかがはいはし水あふせまだきにたゆる心は
tsurashi to mo
iza ya ikaga wa
iwashimizu
ause madaki ni
tayuru kokoro wa | How cruel!
Why as
Spring waters rushing from the rocks did
Our meeting swiftly
Did you wish to end? |
Kazusa, in service to the Empress
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In reply
世世ふともたえじとぞ思ふ神がきの岩ねをくぐる水の心は
yo yo futomo
taeji to zo omou
kamigaki no
iwane o kuguru
mizu no kokoro wa | Age upon age may pass, yet
Never shall we end, I feel, as from
The sacred precinct’s
Rocky roots flow
Waters—that is my heart! |
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Icicles
山ざとは谷の下水つららゐていはうつ浪の音だにもせず
yamazato wa
tani no shitamizu
tsurara ite
iwa utsu nami no
oto dani mo sezu | At a mountain retreat
The waters in the valley below
Have turned to icicles, and
Of waves striking the rocks
There is no sound, at all. |
Morotoki
Icicles
つららゐてまもる岩まの関なればよをへてかたく成りまさるかな
tsurara ite
mamoru iwama no
seki nareba
yo o hete kataku
narimasaru kana | Icicles hang
Warding the space between the rocks, and
Forming a barrier, so
As the night goes by their hardness
Grows even greater! |
Toshiyori
Icicles
浪かくる岩まひまなくたるひして氷とぢたる山川の水
nami kakuru
iwama himanaku
taruhishite
kōri tojitaru
yamakawa no mizu | Waves hang from
Every single space between the rocks
In icicles—
Sealed in ice is
The water of this mountain stream. |
Akisue
Mandarin Ducks 鴛鴦
をし鳥もくぐる岩ねのうす氷今朝やうは毛にとぢかさぬらん
oshidori mo
kuguru iwane no
usukōri
kesa ya uwage ni
tojikasanuran | The mandarins do
Dive beneath the ice-film
Round the rocks;
I wonder, will their down this morning
Be clogged with crystal layers? |
Toshiyori
From the beach at Ajiro in Ise.
磯に咲く網代の小菊汐間は玉とぞ求めむ波の下草
iso ni saku
aziro no wogiku
shiFokaFi Fa
tama to zo tomemu
nami no sitagusa |
Blooming on the rocks
Ajiro’s tiny chrysanths
Between the tides are
Gems that I would seek,
Weeds beneath the waves… |
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妹が門入り泉川の常滑にみ雪残れりいまだ冬かも
imo ga kado
iri idumigapa no
tokoname ni
miyuki nokoreri
imada puyu kamo |
My darling’s door
I enter; upon Izumi River’s
Rocks
Remains the snow,
As does winter yet… |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
柿本人麻呂歌集
Cicadas (蟬)
山川の岩こす波にうちそへて谷 ひびくなりせみのもろごゑ
yamakawa no
iwa kosu nami ni
uchisoete
tani hibiku nari
semi no morogoe | Mountain torrents
Cross the rocks in waves
Along with
The echoes in the valley
From the swarming cicadas’ songs. |
Akinaka
[One of] five poems composed when dropping anchor at Nagadojima in Aki province.
石走る瀧もとどろに鳴く蝉の声をし聞けば都し思ほゆ
ipabasiru
taki mo todoro ni
naku semi no
kowe o si kikeba
miyako si omopoyu |
Running o’er the rocks
Cataracts resound –
When the singing cicadas
Song I hear
The capital comes to my thoughts. |
Ōishi no Minomaro
大石蓑麻呂
'Simply moving and elegant'
