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夏衣たつた川原の柳かげ涼みにきつつならすころかな
| natu koromo tatuta kaFara no yanagi kage suzumi ni kitutu narasu koro kana |
Summer wear Cut out-at Tatsuta riverbed Willows’ shade Is cool and so we come again-wearing Familiar clothing now, do we not. |
Sone no Yoshitada
曾禰好忠
Topic unknown.
風吹けばおきつ白波龍田山夜半にや君が一人こゆらむ
| kaze fukeba okitu siranami tatuta yama yoFa ni ya kimi ga Fitori koyuramu |
This gusting wind Whips up the whitecaps High as Mount Tatsuta Where, through night’s depths, my Lord, Makes his solitary way. |
Anonymous.
Some people tell the following tale about this poem. Long ago, a man began to live with the daughter of someone from the province of Yamato. When the woman’s parents died, and her house became poorer, the man became friendly with a woman in the province of Kawachi and visited her often, becoming increasingly distant towards his wife. In spite of this, she was never cold towards him and, every time he went off to Kawachi, she sent him off just as he wished; thinking this strange, and wondering if her affections might have shifted elsewhere, one beautiful moonlit night he pretended to go off to Kawachi and, concealing himself in the greenery in the garden, watched her. Until late at night she plucked at her zither, grieving, then recited this poem and went to bed; the man heard it and, from that day on, never left her again.
Composed on the flood of autumn leaves, when crossing the Tatsuta River when passing through the Kaminabi Mountains.
神なびの山をすぎ行く秋なればたつた河にぞぬさはたむくる
| kaminabi no yama wo sugiyuku aki nareba tatuta gaFa ni zo nusa Fa tamukuru |
Through the Kaminabi Mountains passes Autumn, so On the river Tatsuta Is a garland proffered. |
Kiyowara no Fukayabu
Composed to accompany a painting of autumn leaves flowing along the Tatsuta River on a folding screen, when the Nijō Empress was known as the Mother of the Crown Prince.
もみぢばのながれてとまるみなとには紅深き浪や立つらむ
| momidiba no nagarete tomaru minato ni Fa kurenawi Fukaki nami ya taturan |
These autumn leaves Flowing, will come to rest At the harbourside: will Deep scarlet Waves break there, I wonder? |
Sosei
素性法師
Topic unknown.
たつた河もみぢば流る神なびのみむろの山に時雨ふるらし
| tatutagaFa momidiba nagaru kamunabi no mimuro no yama ni sigure fururasi |
Along the river Tatsuta Flow scarlet leaves; Upon the divine Mountain dwellings of the gods A gentle rain looks to be falling. |
Anonymous
Alternatively ‘scarlet leaves on the Asuka River.’
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龍田河もみぢみだれて流るめりわたらば錦なかやたえなむ
| tatutagaFa momidi midarete nagarumeri wataraba nisiki naka ya taenamu |
Along the Tatsuta River The scarlet leaves in such confusion Drift, that Were I to ford across, this brocade Would be split in two, I’d say… |
Anonymous
It is said by some that this poem was composed by the Nara Emperor.
