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Teiji-in uta’awase 15

Left (Win)

むさしのにいろやかよへるふぢのはなわかむらさきにそめてみゆらむ

musashino ni
iro ya kayoeru
fuji no hana
wakamurasaki ni
somete miyuramu
On Musashi Plain
Are their colours blending?
The wisteria blossom has
The gromwell with violet
Dyed, it seems…

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Right

あかずしてすぎゆくはるをよぶこどりよびかへしつときてもつげなむ

akazushite
sugiyuku haru o
yobukodori
yobikaeshitsu to
kite mo tsugenamu
Unsated by
The passage of spring,
The songbird
Has called it back—that
Is what I would have him announce!

Okikaze 30

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 39

Left

夏草も夜の間は露にいこふらむ常にこがるる我ぞかなしき

natsukusa mo
yo no ma wa tsuyu ni
ikouramu
tsune ni kogaruru
ware zo kanashiki
Upon the summer grasses
Throughout the night do dewdrops
Seem to rest, and
Ever smouldering,
I feel sad, indeed!

76

Right

ながめつつ人まつをりによぶこ鳥いづかたへとか立ちかへりなく

nagametsutsu
hito matsu ori ni
yobukodori
izukata e to ka
tachikaerinaku
Always I gaze out
While waiting for him;
O, songbird!
Whither are you bound?
Trilling back and forth…

77

GSS XIII: 942

When Lord Kin’yori spent all his time visiting the home of the lady with whom he was currently involved.

ながめつゝ人待つ宵の呼子鳥何方へとか行きかへるらむ

nagametutu
Fito matu yoFi no
yobu kotori
idukata Fe to ka
yukikaFeruramu
Gazing out
Awaiting you all night long,
The crying songbirds,
Seem to say, “Where to?”
As they go back and forth…

The Mother of the Monk Kankan
寛湛法師母