Sent to a lady’s residence.
君が名の立つにとがなき身なりせばおほよそ人になして見ましや
kimi ga na no
tatu ni toganaki
mi nariseba
oFoyoso Fito ni
nasite mimasi ya | Of rumours about you
Spreading blameless
Should I be, then
Maybe, as such a one
Might you regard me? |
Lord Fujiwara no Tadafusa
唐衣我はかたなのふれなくにまづたつ物はなき名なりけり
karakoromo
ware Fa katana no
Furenaku ni
madu tatu mono Fa
nakina narikeri | Upon a Cathay robe
Splitting sword I
Have not laid my hand, yet
First to arise are
Baseless rumours. |
無き名のみたつの市とはさわげどもいさまだ人をうるよしもなし
nakina nomi
tatu no iti to Fa
sawagedomo
isa mada Fito wo
uru yosi mo nasi | Groundless rumours,
As Tatsu market
Make a racket, but,
Well, I have yet on her
To be sold! |
Hitomaro
なき名のみたつたの山のあをつづら又くる人も見えぬ所に
nakina nomi
tatuta no yama no
awotudura
mata kuru Fito mo
mienu tokoro ni | Groundless rumours, alone,
Arise, as on Tatsuta Mountain
Fresh creepers
Wind their way where no one
Comes to see, yet… |
Topic unknown.
春の野におふるなきなのわびしきは身をつみてだに人のしらぬよ
haru no no ni
oFuru nakina no
wabisiki Fa
mi o tumite dani
Fito no siranu yo | On the plains in springtime
Grow herbs—groundless rumours
Leave me desolate,
My flesh plucked, though
No one knows at all! |
Anonymous
Original
もみぢばはきりのたつにもちりけるをかぜをかたなとおもひけるかな
momijiba wa
kiri no tatsu ni mo
chirikeru o
kaze o katana to
omoikeru kana | The scarlet leaves with
The rising mists
Do scatter—
The wind a sword
Truly does seem! |
30
Left
もみぢばはあきのかぜこそさそひけれきりのなきなをたつぞあやしき
momijiba wa
aki no kaze koso
sasoikere
kiri no nakina o
tatsu zo ayashiki | The scarlet leaves
By the winds of autumn, truly,
Are invited;
That baseless rumours of the mists
Arise is strange, indeed! |
31
Right
からにしきかぜのたつらんもみぢばはきりのたつにもおくれざりけり
karanishiki
kaze no tatsuran
momijiba wa
kiri no tatsu ni mo
okurezarikeri | Cathay brocade
The rising wind seeming to shear
Scarlet leaves,
Even the rising of the mists
Will not delay it.¯ |
32
On Love and Garments, when various people had composed poems.
わすらるる身はうらぶれぬから衣さても立ちにし名こそ惜しけれ
wasuraruru
mi wa uraburenu
karakoromo
satemo tachinishi
na koso oshikere | Forgotten by her
I am so downcast:
A Cathay robe
Sewn at last
Rumours of her new love—how I regret them! |
544
Love and Clouds.
しら雲のきえはきえなでなにしかもたつたの山の名のみたつらん
shirakumo no
kie wa kienade
nani shika mo
tatsuta no yama no
na nomi tatsuran | The clouds, so white, are
On the point of vanishing,
So why,
From Tatsuta Mountain
Should such rumours arise? |
525
忍ぶれど物思ふ人はうき雲の空に恋する名をのみぞたつ
shinoburedo
mono’omou hito wa
ukigumo no
sora ni koisuru
na o nomi zo tatsu | I kept it secret, yet
She, who is the focus of my thoughts, is
As a drifting cloud
Within the sky, and of my love
Rumours, alone, do rise toward her. |
Middle Captain Morotoki, Fourth Rank
19
恋すともいかでか空に名はたたじ忍ぶる程は袖につつまで
koisu to mo
ikade ka sora ni
na wa tataji
shinoburu hodo wa
sode ni tsutsumade | You love, so
How is it that the skies
Could remain untouched by rumours?
Your secret
You’ve not kept wrapped within your sleeves… |
Lady Aki, in service to the Empress Dowager
20
Composed on the beginning of love.
無名たつ人だに世にはある物を君戀る身と知られぬぞうき
nakina tatu
Fito dani yo ni Fa
aru mono wo
kimi koFuru mi to
sirarenu zo uki |
Baseless rumours rise
Of folk in this world –
That happens, but
That I love you
Goes unknown is painful, indeed! |
Jitsugen
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