Ancient Estates 故郷
むぐらはひよもぎがそまとあれはててふりにし里は人かげもせず
| mugurahai yomogi ga soma to arehatete furinishi sato wa hitokage mo sezu | Creepers crawl around The mugwort and brushwood Desolate and wild; At this aged estate There is no trace of anyone, at all. |
Higo
Ancient Estates 故郷
さしながらまだをののえはくちなくにまがきもねやもあらぬ里かな
| sashinagara mada ono no e wa kuchinaku ni magaki mo neya mo aranu sato kana | Not entirely Yet has my axe handle Rotted, but No fence or bedchamber Has this estate! |
Nakazane
Waterfalls 滝
名にたてぬみ山がくれの滝なれどながれはさとの人にしられぬ
| na ni tatenu miyamagakure no taki naredo nagare wa sato no hito ni shirarenu | No name adorns These hidden mountain Falls, yet Of their flow are the estate’s Folk all unknowing… |
Kanemasa
Topic unknown.
この里に旅寝しぬべし桜花ちりのまがひに家路わすれて
| kono sato ni tabineshinubesi sakurabana chiri no magaFi ni iFedi wasurete | In this hamlet Must I sleep upon my travels; In the cherry blossoms’ Scattering distraction Have I forgot my homeward path… |
Anonymous
菊の水齢を延べずあらませばさとも荒さで今日あはましや
| kiku no midu yowaFi wo nobezu aramaseba sato mo arasade keFu aFamasi ya |
The chrysanthemums’ waters Age do not extend – If that were so, then Would undisarrayed their estate be where We would meet today? |
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Left (Win).
思ひあまりながむる空の掻き曇り月さへ我を厭ひつるかな
| omoFi’amari nagamuru sora no kakikumori tuki saFe ware wo itoFituru kana |
Filled full with love The sky on which I turn my gaze Is drowned in darkness; Even the moon from me Does shy! |
The Consultant Middle Captain 宰相中将
[Minamoto no Kuninobu 源国信]
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Right.
嵐吹く夜寒の里の寝覚めにはいとど人こそ恋ひしかりけれ
| arasi Fuku yo samu no sato no nezame ni Fa itodo Fito koso koFisikarikere |
Stom winds rage Round my night-chilled home; Starting from sleep How much more do I love her now… |
The Minister of Justice 刑部卿
[Minamoto no Akinaka 源顕仲]
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When Lord Yoshinobu had gone to Ōharano, he met someone whom it seemed strange to find living in such a mountain retreat; when Yoshinobu asked him how he had come to be there:
世中を背きにとてはこしかどもなを憂きことは大原の里
| yo no naka o somuki ni tote wa koshikadomo nao uki koto wa ōhara no sato |
“The mundane world I will abandon,” I said and Came here, yet Still are there many sorrows In this estate at Ōhara. |
Anonymous
Sleet
あらち山雪げの空になりぬればかいづの里にみぞれふりつつ
| arachiyama yukige no sora ni narinureba kaitsu no sato ni mizore furitsutsu | When Mount Arachi’s Skies scented with snow Become, Upon the estate at Kaizu Sleet falls on and on… |
Minamoto no Nakazane
源仲実
Sleet
夕されば雪ふるさとの柴の庵しづくにてこそみぞれとはしれ
| yūsareba yuki furu sato no shiba no ya wa shizuku nite koso mizore to wa shire | When the evening comes Snow falling upon the estate’s Brushwood rooves Forms droplets and I know ‘tis sleet. |
Minamoto no Akinaka
源顕仲
五月雨に畔の細道水深み田中の里は人ぞ通はぬ
| samidare ni aze no Fosomiti midu Fukami tanaka no sato Fa Fito zo kayoFanu |
In the drizzle Above the narrow paths between the paddies So deep is the water that The dwelling within the rice fields Is visited by no one at all… |