Waterfalls 滝
たなばたのおりながしたる布なれや空よりおつる滝の気色は
| tanabata no orinagashitaru nuno nare ya sora yori otsuru taki no keshiki wa | Has the Weaver Maid Spun out a stream Of cloth? From the skies tumbles A waterfall – or so it looks! |
Toshiyori
Tag Archives: sora
Eikyū hyakushu 505
Stars 星
あまつ空夕の星のよそにても恋しき人をみるよしもがな
| ama tsu sora yū no hoshi no yoso nite mo koishiki hito o miru yoshi mo gana | In the sky-spanning heavens The evening stars are So far away; If only my darling I could, somehow, see! |
Daishin
Eikyū hyakushu 503
Stars 星
ひこぼしの心も空にはつ秋の七日の夜をやこひしかるらん
| hikoboshi no kokoro mo sora ni hatsu’aki no nanuka no yo o ya koishikaruran | Does the Herd Boy’s Heart within the skies Find early autumn’s Seventh night The most dear of all? |
Kanemasa
Eikyū hyakushu 494
Clouds 雲
くちなしの色にたなびくうき雲を雪げの空と誰かみざらん
| kuchinashi no iro ni tanabiku ukigumo o yukige no sora to tare ka mizaran | Scarlet shot through with yellow Hues are the trailing, Drifting clouds, so The tint of snow within the skies Would be glimpsed by no one. |
Toshiyori
Eikyū hyakushu 492
Clouds 雲
たかまどの山に八重たつしら雲はそらにたなびく心ちこそすれ
| takamado no yama ni yae tatsu shirakumo wa sora ni tanabiku kokochi koso sure | Above Takamato Mountain, eightfold rise The clouds so white: Trailing across the skies Is how I feel I am! |
Akinaka
Eikyū hyakushu 463
Lacking a Glimpse of Love Letters 不見書恋
ふみつくる跡も見えねば浜千鳥たちゐるそらもかひなかりけり
| fumi tsukuru ato mo mieneba hama chidori tachi’iru sora mo kainakarikeri | Of letter writing, too, I see not a sign; The plovers on beach Take wing into the skies, just As pointlessly. |
Daishin
Eikyū hyakushu 458
Lacking a Glimpse of Love Letters 不見書恋
かづらきやくめの岩ばしふみみねどわたりがたしと空にしりつつ
| kazuragi ya kume no iwabashi fumi minedo watarigatashi to sora shiritsutsu | At Kazuragi stands Kume’s broken stony bridge: No sight of letters from you, yet How hard it is to cross – that The skies do ever know… |
Nakazane
Eikyū hyakushu 451
Love Separated by Distant Roads 隔遠路恋
白雲の八重なる山はかさぬともこころは空にかよへとほづま
| shiragumo no yae naru yama wa kasanu tomo kokoro wa sora ni kayoe tōzuma | Clouds of white, Eightfold upon the mountains Do not lie, yet My heart, into the skies Fly back and forth, to my distant love! |
Nakazane
Eikyū hyakushu 32
Heat Haze
しづけくて吹きくる風もなき空にみだれてあそぶいとぞみえける
| shizukekute fukikuru kaze mo naki sora ni midarete asobu ito zo miekeru | Even a gently Blowing breeze Is absent from the skies, where A playful tangled Thread of haze appears. |
Tadafusa
Eikyū hyakushu 27
Spring Dawn
あづさ弓はるかにみれば山のはによこ雲わたるあけぼののそら
| azusayumi haruka ni mireba yama no ha ni yokogumo wataru akebono no sora | A catalpa bow Seen in the distance: Across the mountains’ edge Trail streaks of cloud in The sky at dawn. |
Higo