大き海の水底深く思ひつつ裳引き平しし菅原の里
opoki umi no
The mighty ocean’s
The Elder Maiden of Ishikawa
Early Evening (晩立)
夕立にをちのみぞ川まさりつつふらぬ里までながれきにけり
yūdachi ni With the evening showers
Kanemasa
Topic unknown.
誰が里に夜がれをしてか郭公ただここにしも寝たる声する
ta ga sato ni
At whose home
Anonymous
When a man who had long visited a woman at the house of the Sugawara Minister, ceased coming for a while, and then came once more.
菅原や伏見の里の荒れしより通ひし人のあともたえにき
sugaFara ya
Sedge fields lie
Anonymous
A poem from the Empress’ Poetry Competition in the Kanpyō period.
春たてど花もにほはぬ山里は物うかる音に鶯ぞなく
Faru tatedo
Spring has come, yet
Ariwara no Muneyana
Composed on the conception of the beginning of spring.
みよしのは山もかすみてしらゆきのふりにしさとに春はきにけり
miyoshino wa
In fair Yoshino
The Regent and Prime Minister
It is said that Her Majesty, when on the way to the capital, Nara, from the Fujiwara palace, had her palanquin halted at Nagaya-no-hara and composed this poem gazing at her former home.
飛鳥 明日香能里乎 置而伊奈婆 君之當者 不所見香聞安良武 [一云 君之當乎 不見而香毛安良牟]
飛ぶ鳥の明日香の里を置きて去なば君があたりは見えずかもあらむ
tobu tori no A bird in flight:
Empress Genmei (660-721)元明皇后
Sent to her when Tomonori’s daughter had gone to Michinoku.
君をのみしのぶの里へゆくものをあびつの山のはるけきやなぞ
kimi o nomi
You, alone
The Daughter of Shigemoto
On hearing that Koben had become intimate with another:
浦風になびきにけりな里の海人の焚く藻の煙心弱さは
ura kaze ni
In the bay breeze
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