Composed in the conception of the moon over a shrine, at the same poetry competition.
ふりにける松物いはゞとひてまし昔もかくや住の江の月
| Furinikeru matu mono iFaba toFitemasi mukasi mo kaku ya sumi no e no tuki |
The ancient Pines-if only they could speak! For I would ask, Of old was it as bright: The moon on Sumiyoshi Bay? |
The Minister of the Right [Fujiwara no Sanesada]
Composed for a picture of Sumiyoshi on a sliding door in the house of the Ichijô Minister of the Left [Minamoto no Masanobu].
すぎゝにしほどをばすてつ今年より千代のかずつむ住吉の松
| sukigi ni si Fodo wo ba sutetu kotosi yori tiyo no kazu tumu sumiyosi no matu |
The past We will abandon; From this year forth Of a thousand years in number make a pile, We pines of Sumiyoshi! |
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
When he had not visited someone whom he had got to know for a long time, he went there, and sent this in from the gate.
住吉の松にたちよる白波のかへる折にや音は泣かるらん
| sumiyosi no matu ni tatiyoru siranami no kaFeru wori ni ya ne Fa nakaruran |
At Sumiyoshi, a pleasant place, The pines are washed over By the whitecaps; With their retreat Are they left rootless, weeping wails? |
Mibu no Tadamine
壬生忠岑
Composed and sent to someone he knew who had gone to Sumiyoshi.
住吉とあまはつぐともながゐすな人忘草おふといふなり
| sumiyosi to ama Fa tugu tomo nagawi su na Fito wasuregusa oFu to iFu nari |
Sumiyoshi is a pleasant place to stay, So say the fisher-folk, yet Do not stay there long, in Nagai; The flower for forgetting folk Blooms there, or so they say. |
Mibu no Tadamine
壬生忠岑