待ちなれし夜半の契を時鳥涙にむすぶしののめの露
| machinareshi yowa no chigiri o hototogisu namida ni musubu shinonome to tsuyu | Well accustomed was I to pining For a midnight vow, O, cuckoo, A covering of tears is The edge of dawn’s dewfall… |
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Shunzei-kyō no musume-shū 32
Shunzei-kyō no musume-shū 27
Lodging on a journey.
袖のうへになるるがほなるひかりかな月こそ旅の心しりけれ
| sode no ue ni narurugao naru hikari kana tsuki koso tabi no kokoro shirikere | Upon my sleeves Seeming to run with tears Does the light! Even the moon the journey’s Mood does know![i] |
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[i] An allusive variation on: Topic unknown. あひにあひて物思ふころのわが袖にやどる月さへぬるるかほなる ai ni aite / mono’omou koro no / wa ga sode ni / yadoru tsuki sae / nururu kao naru ‘So many times have we met; / In gloomy thought / Upon my sleeves / Where rests the moon / Even her face wet with tears.’ Ise (Kokinshū XV: 756)
Sankashū I: 26
A warbler in the rain.
鶯のはるさめざめとなきゐたるたけのしづくやなみだなるらん
| uguisu no harusamezame to naki’itaru take no shizuku ya namida naruran | A warbler In a spring shower lets fall His cries: Are the droplets on the bamboo His tears, perhaps?[i] |
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[i] See: Warbler [uguhisu]. 心から花のしづくにそほちつつうくひずとのみ鳥のなくらむ kokoro kara / hana no shizuku ni / sōchitsutsu / uku hizu to nomi / tori no nakuramu ‘Even his heart / By droplets from the blossoms / Is ever drenched: / Sadly simply never dry, / Does the bird seem to cry…’ Lord Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (Kokinshū X: 422); and: When he was staying somewhere with bamboo before his bedroom. 竹ちかくよどこねはせじ鶯のなく声きけばあさいせられず take chikaku / yodoko ne wa seji / uguisu no / naku koe kikeba / asa irarezu ‘Close by the bamboo / My bed, but sleep eludes me, for / When the warbler’s / Crying song I hear / I cannot doze away the morning.’ Lord Fujiwara no Korehira (Gosenshū II: 48)
Reikeiden no nyōgo uta’awase 11
Love without meeting
Left (Win in a certain book)
かひもなきこひをのみしてよのなかにあはぬためしをわれやのこさむ
| kai mo naki koi o nomi shite yo no naka ni awanu tameshi o ware ya nokosamu | Pointlessly Yearning is all I do— In this mundane world, that We never meet: will that habit Be all that is left to me? |
Tadami
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Right (Win)
人をよにこひにこがるるわがみよりいくらのなみだここらいづらん
| hito o yo ni koi ni kogaruru wagami yori ikura no namida kokora izuran | For her within the night My yearning smoulders on, yet From my sorry self How many tears Might burst out in floods? |
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[i] An almost identical poem is included in Saigū nyōgo kishi joō uta’awase (21).
KKS XVII: 922
Kinkai wakashū 717
Composed when I saw a little child crying for his mother by the side of the road and, on asking folk nearby, being told that both his mother and father had died.
いとほしやみるに涙もとどまらずおやもなき子の母をたづぬる
| itōshi ya miru ni namida mo todomarazu oya mo naki ko no haha o tazunuru | O, how pitiful! The sight of tears Unending on An orphan child Searching for his mother… |
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Kinkai wakashū 687
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, My words of grief Number the same as My ceaseless tears, Falling as dewdrops.[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)
SIS XX: 1274
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 nodokekarikeri naki Fito wo koFuru namida zo madu Fa otikeru | The cherry blossom Seem so at peace, but For her who’s gone My loving tears Will be the first to scatter. |
The Onomiya Grand Minister
