Among my miscellaneous poems
世にふればうきことの葉の数ごとにたえず涙の露ぞおきける
yo ni fureba uki koto no ha no kazu goto ni taezu namida no tsuyu zo okikeru Living in this world, [i]
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[i] See: Topic unknown. よにふればうさこそまされみ吉野の岩のかけ道ふみならしてむ yo ni fureba / usa koso masare / miyoshino no / iwa no kakemichi / fuminarashitemu ‘Living in this world / Brings only an excess of grief; / Upon fair Yoshino’s / Steep and rocky trails / Would I set my feet.’ Anonymous (Kokinshū XVIII: 951
In the spring of the year following his daughter’s death, when the cherry blossom was in full bloom, he was gazing on the blossom at his house and, with others, composed on the topic of ‘expressing a little of one’s feelings’.
さくら花のどけかりけりなき人をこふる涙ぞまづはおちける
sakurabana The cherry blossom
The Onomiya Grand Minister
ひとりふす草の枕のよるのつゆは友なき鹿のなみだなりけり
hitori fusu kusa no makura no yoru no tsuyu wa tomo naki shika no namida narikeri Lying alone
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Original
ひとこふるこころはそらにかよへばやそらもなみだもともにしぐるる
hito kouru kokoro wa sora ni kayoeba ya sora mo namida mo tomo ni shigururu Yearning for him, does
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Left
ひとこふるこころはそらもなきものをいづこよりふるしぐれなるらむ
hito kouru kokoro wa sora mo naki mono o izuko yori furu shigure naruramu Yearning for him,
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Right
おほかたのものおもふときにしぐるるをあきのそらとはみゆるなるらん
ōkata no mono’omou toki ni shigururu o aki no sora to wa miyuru naruran In general
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Left
なみだがはせけどとまらずあかつきのわかれはをしのうきねをぞする
namidagawa sekedo tomarazu akatsuki no wakare wa oshi no ukine o zo suru The river of my tears
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Right
おきてゆくかたもしられずまどふかななみだもそでもめにさはりつつ
okiteyuku kata mo shirarezu madou kana namida mo sode mo me ni sawaritsutsu Rising and departing,
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Left
はるのよのあかぬわかれのあかつきはちへのにしきをたつにざりける
haru no yo no akanu wakare no akatsuki wa chie no nishiki o tatsu ni zarikeru After a spring night,
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Right
あけぬてふこゑもなみだももろともにうちいづるからにそでぞぬれける
akenu chō koe mo namida mo morotomo ni uchi’izuru kara ni sode zo nurekeru ‘Tis dawn, say
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Topic unknown.
篝火にあらぬわが身のなぞもかく涙の河にうきてもゆらむ
kagaribi ni aranu wa ga mi no nazo mo kaku namida no kawa ni ukite moyuramu A fisher’s torch
Anonymous
わが袖のなみだにもあらぬ露にだに萩の下ばは色に出でにけり
wa ga sode no namida ni mo aranu tsuyu ni dani hagi no shitaba wa iro ni idenikeri Upon my sleeves
532
Topic unknown
そのことといはぬ涙のわびしきはただにたもとのぬるるなりけり
sono koto to iwanu namida no wabishiki wa tada ni tamoto no nururu narikeri Of that
Tsurayuki
On the same conception, when the Lay Priest and Former Chancellor had ten poem sequences composed at his residence.
いまよりの涙のはてよいかならん恋ひそむるだに袖はぬれけり
ima yori no namida no hateyo ika naran koisomuru dani sode wa nurekeri From this moment
Former Major Counsellor Tame’uji
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