The Iwashimizu Special Festival (石清水臨時祭)
男山かざしの花も春なればをみのころももかはるけふかな
| otokoyama kazashi no hana mo haru nareba omi no koromo mo kawaru kyō kana | When Man-Mountain is Decked with blossom In springtime, Festive garb, too, is Donned today! |
Nakazane
Tag Archives: springtime
MYS X: 1891
冬こもり春咲く花を手折り持ち千たびの限り恋ひわたるかも
| puyu komori paru saku pana wo tawori moti titabi no kagiri kopiwataru kamo |
Sealed in winter Springtime’s blooming blossoms Do I take in hand – A thousand times and more Does love for you fill my thoughts. |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
柿本人麻呂歌集
Shitagō-shū 8
ほのぼのと明石の浜を見渡しば春の浪わけ出づる船の帆
| Fonobono to akasi no Fama wo miwataseba Faru no namiwake iduru Fune no Fo |
In the gloaming When across the beach at Akashi I sweep my gaze, Cutting through the springtime waves Are the sails of departing boats. |
Minamoto no Shitagō
源順
Horikawa hyakushu 167
冬草と見えし春野の小笹原弥生の雨に深緑なる
| fuyu kusa to mieshi haruno no ozasawara yayoi no ame ni fukamidori naru |
A winter plant They did appear in the fields in springtime: The groves of young broad-leaved bamboo By the Third Month’s rains Turned the darkest green. |
Fujiwara no Nakazane
藤原仲実
KKS II: 115
While on the path across the Shiga Mountains, he met a large number of women, and later composed this and sent it to them.
あづさゆみはるの山辺をこえくれば道もさりあへず花ぞちりける
| adusa yumi Faru no yamabe o koekureba miti mo sariaFezu Fana zo tirikeru |
A catalpa bow When the springtime mountains I traverse I cannot pass along the way So many flowers have fallen! |
Tsurayuki
MYS X: 1892
春山の霧に惑へる鴬も我れにまさりて物思はめやも
| paru yama no kiri ni madoperu ugupisu mo ware ni masarite mono’omopame ya mo |
In the springtime mountains’ Mists astray Is the bush-warbler More than I Lost in gloomy thought? |
MYS X: 1890
春山の友鴬の泣き別れ帰ります間も思ほせ我れを
| paru yama no tomo ugupisu no nakiwakare kaperimasu ma mo omopose ware wo |
In springtime in the mountains Bush-warblers Cry in parting; As you make your way back home Think so of me! |
MYS V: 838
梅の花散り乱ひたる岡びには鴬鳴くも春かたまけて
| ume no pana tirimagapitaru okabi ni pa ugupisu naku mo paru katamukete |
The plum blossom Has fallen all around The hillsides, where The warbler sings Awaiting the springtime. |
Clerk of Ōsumi, Kaji no Haramaro
大隅目榎氏鉢麻呂
Fubokushō II: 519
ともかほに鶯ばかりおとづれて霞にむせぶ春の山里
| tomogao ni uguisu bakari otozurete kasumi ni musebu haru no yamazato |
The only friendly face is The bush warbler Come visiting This haze-choked Mountain retreat in springtime! |
Cloistered Imperial Prince Shukaku (1150-1202)
守覚法親王
Horikawa hyakushu 1529
春のをかにのぼりて見けむ竹取はかみのよならぬことをしぞ思ふ
| haru no oka ni noborite mikemu takatori wa kami no yo naranu koto o shi zo omou |
In springtime, the hills Did climb to see The bamboo-cutter: ‘This is no realm of the Gods’ He thought… |
Minamoto no Morotoki
源師時