Monkeys 猿
ゆふづくひさすや嵐の山もとに物わびしらにさるさけぶなり
| yūzuku hi sasu ya arashi no yamamoto ni monowabishira ni saru sakebunari | The twilight sun Shines around Arashi Mountain’s foot where So sorrowfully The monkeys howl. |
Nakazane
Tag Archives: sun
Eikyū hyakushu 662
Boats 船
なごかれよみずりもすまにかきつみてあからも袖の灘通る日ぞ
| nagokare yo mizuri mo suma ni kakitsumite akara mo sode no natatōru hi zo | O, be calm! The dyestuffs at Suma are Gathered all together, and The red hue on my sleeves is The sun passing through these perilous seas! |
Toshiyori
Eikyū hyakushu 533
Groves 原
道とほみ日も夕ぐれになりぬればそのはらまでとさしてこそゆけ
| michi tōmi hi mo yūgure ni narinureba sonohara made to sashite koso yuke | My road is yet long, and The sun toward twilight Does go, so Just as far as Sonohara Let it still shine on! |
Daishin
Eikyū hyakushu 522
Lakes 水海
タづくひえがたのうらのいりましに雲すばへしてみのもすすけぬ
| yūzuku hi egata no ura no irimashi ni kumo subaeshite mino mo susukenu | The evening sun Upon the beach-rimmed bay Is setting, while From the clouds a gentle rain does fall Leaving sooty spots upon my raincoat. |
Toshiyori
Eikyū hyakushu 500
Stars 星
日くるれば星をいただくかみにしもはらひもあへずおける霜かな
| hi kurureba hoshi o itadaku kami ni shimo harai mo aezu okeru shimo kana | When the sun grows dim, Spreading out the stars, The gods most certainly Will not sweep away The fallen frost! |
Nakazane
Eikyū hyakushu 18
Spring Sun
からころも春たちきぬとききしより日のうらうらとなりにけるかな
| karakoromo haru tachikinu to kikishi yori hi no uraura to narinikeru kana | A Cathay robe, Cut and sewn; spring has come – Since I heard that The sun has softly Shone, indeed! |
Tadafusa
GSS III: 100
When she was asked to send something to the house of a man.
はる日さす藤のうら葉のうらとけて君し思はば我もたのまん
| Faru Fi sasu Fudi no uraba utitokete kimi si omoFaba ware mo tanoman |
Spring sun shines on The wisteria’s underleaves; If kindly You do think of me, then I, too, will grant my trust. |
Anonymous
SKKS I: 13
A spring poem, presented in a hundred poem sequence during the reign of former Emperor Sutoku.
若菜摘む袖とぞ見ゆるかすがのゝとぶひのゝべの雪のむらぎえ
| wakana tsumu sode to zo miyuru kasugano no tobu hi no nobe no yuki no muragie |
Plucking fresh herbs, Sleeves do I seem to see On the plain at Kasuga, Where the sun dances in the fields On the patchy snow… |
Former Consultant Norinaga
Eikyū hyakushu 29
Heat Haze
うち乱れすめるみ空の遊ぶ糸に天の川瀬のみつを日かはや
| uchimidare sumeru misora no asobu ito ama no kawase no mitsu o hi ka wa ya |
Confusing The clear skies is The heat-haze: The rapids of the river of heaven Roused by the sun, perhaps? |
Akinaka
SKKS I: 35
Composed on evening haze.
なごの海の霞のまよりながむれば入る日をあらふ沖つ白波
| nago no umi no kasumi no ma yori nagamureba iru hi o arau oki tsu shiranami |
At the sea at Nago Between the hazy gaps I gaze: Bathed by the setting sun Are the whitecaps in the offing. |
The Gotokudaiji Minister of the Left
後徳大寺左大臣
[Fujiwara no Sanesada 藤原実定]