Meeting love at an inn on the road.
笹枕たゞかりそめと思ふなよ一よのふしも代々の契りを
sasa makura
tada karisome to
omou na yo
hito yo no fushi mo
yoyo no chigiri o |
A pillow of bamboo grass
Is but brief –
Think not that;
A single night lying together
Forms a bond to last forever! |
Hail on bamboo.
山風は梢にさやぐときは木のかげ野の小篠霰ふるなり
yama kaze wa
kozue ni sayagu
tokiwaki no
kageno no ozasa
arare furu nari |
The mountain wind
Rustles through the treetops;
Evergreen in
The shaded fields, upon the dwarf bamboo,
Hail is falling. |
The beginning of Spring.
けふしこそ嵐にさやぐ篠の葉の深山も霞む春は來にけれ
kyô shi koso
arashi ni sayagu
sasa no ha no
miyama mo kasumu
haru wa kinkeri |
On this day of all days
The rough winds rustle
The leaves of brief bamboo
And the mountains’ depths are hazed:
Spring is here, indeed. |
夕立の晴れ行峰の雲間より入日涼しき露の玉笹
yûdachi no
hareyuku mine no
kumoma yori
irihi suzushiki
tsuyu no tamasasa |
As evening showers
Clear from the peaks
From the clefts between the clouds
Sunbeams are cool upon
The dew-drenched bamboo grass. |
On luxuriant growth: sent to Okada, when he accompanied his lord to pay homage at the shrine at Nikkô.
篠の露袴にかけししげり哉
sasa no tsuyu
hakama ni kakeshi
shigeri kana |
Dew from the bamboo grass
Has come to cling upon your trousers
In profusion. |
(1693)
When he presented a hundred poem sequence.
あふことはかた野の里のさゝのいほしのに露ちるよはのとこかな
au koto wa
katano no sato no
sasa no io
shino ni tsuyu chiru
yowa no toko kana |
To meet is
Impossible-at the estate of Katano
By a hut of bamboo grass,
From the bamboo seedlings dew drips wetly
Upon my bed in night’s depths. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成
Topic unknown.
さゝの葉はみ山もそよにみだるなりわれはいもおもふわかれきぬれば
sasa no ha wa
miyama mo soyo ni
midaru nari
ware wa imo omou
wakarekinureba |
The bamboo grass leaves
In the mountain deeps rustle
In confusion;
In thoughts of my love,
Left far behind. |
Hitomaro
人麻呂
From when he presented a hundred poem sequence.
さゝの葉はみ山もさやにうちそよぎこほれる霜を吹嵐かな
sasa no ha wa
miyama mo saya ni
uchisoyogi
koreru shimo o
fuku arashi kana | The bamboo grass leaves
In the moutain deeps clearly
Rustle:
The frozen frost
Blown by the storm, perhaps? |
The Regent and Grand Minister [Fujiwara no Yoshitsune] (1169 – 1206)
藤原良経
A poem for the Sun Goddess.
sasa no kuma
Finokuma kaFa ni
koma tomete
sibasi mizu kaFe
kage o tani mimu |
At Kuma in Sasa
By the Hinokuma River
I halt my mount and
Water it a while
Gazing only at Your Light. |
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