五月来ば信太の杜の時鳥木伝ふ千枝の数ごとに鳴け
| satsuki koba shinoda no mori no hototogisu ko tsutau chie no kazugoto ni nake |
When the summer comes, In Shinoda’s sacred grove Cuckoos Annouce the tree’s thousand branches With a song for every one! |
Minamoto no Shunrai
Tag Archives: Shinoda
Horikawa hyakushu 210
GSIS III: 189
Composed at the poetry competition held at the residence of imperial princess Sukeko (Yūshi) on 5th day of the Sixth Month Eishō 5 (1051).
夜だにあけば尋ねてきかむ郭公信太の杜の方になくなり
| yo dani akeba tadunete kitamu Fototogisu sinoda no mori no kata ni nakunari |
With the simple break of dawn Do they come to call: The cuckoos In Shinoda’s sacred grove Do sing. |
Nōin
SKS X: 365
Kokin rokujō II: 1049
Summer II: 27
Left.
ひまもなく信太の杜に聞ゆ也千枝にや來鳴く蝉の諸聲
| hima mo naku shinoda no mori ni kikoyu nari chie ni ya kinaku semi no morogoe |
Ceaselessly In Shinoda forest Does one hear From the thousand branches of the camphor tree The cicadas’ jostling songs? |
293
Right (Win).
夏山の木ごとにひゞく心地して一方ならぬ蝉の諸聲
| natsuyama no ki goto ni hibiku kokochishite hitokata naranu semi no morogoe |
In the summer mountains Every single tree resounds, I feel, From all sides comes The cicadas’ jostling songs. |
The Provisional Master of the Empress’ Household Office.
294
Both Left and Right state simply that they found the other’s poem ‘unsatsifying’.
Shunzei wonders, ‘Whether “Shinoda forest cicadas” (shinoda no mori no semi) is entirely appropriate? It has more the feeling of cuckoos, I think. “Every single tree resounds” (ki goto ni hibiku kokochi sen) is more like it. Thus, I would make Right the winner.’
SKKS XVIII: 1820
After Izumi Shikibu had been abandoned by Michisada, Akazome Emon heard that almost immediately Prince Atsumichi had begun to visit her, and sent her this:
うつろはでしばしゝのだのもりをみよかへりもぞするくずのうら風
| utsurowade shibashi shinoda no mori o miyo kaeri mo zo suru kuzu no ura kaze |
Turn not! And For a while on Shinoda Forest rest your gaze! For it may return again: The breeze ‘neath the arrowroot leaves. |
Akazome Emon
赤染衛門
SKKS IV: 307
At a time when everyone was composing poems from topics picked at random, he composed this on ‘the autumn wind in the forest at Shinoda’.
日をへつゝをとこそまされいづみなるしのだのもりのちえの秋風
| hi wo hetsutsu oto koso masare izumi naru shinoda no mori no chie no aki kaze |
As the days go by The sound grows ever greater At Izumi In the forest of Shinoda A thousand branches rustle in the autumn wind. |
Fujiwara no Tsunehira