New Year’s Day
よきことをますみの鏡今日見ればかねて千年のかげぞうかべる
| yoki koto o masumi no kagami kyō mireba kanete chitose no kage zo ukaberu | When pleasant things In the clearest of glasses Today I see, Already a thousand years’ Sights have floated there… |
Higo
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Eikyū hyakushu 251
The Ninth Day of the Ninth Month
折る菊の露に濡れぬる今日よりや千年の秋に逢はむとすらむ
| oru kiku no tsuyu ni nurenuru kyō yori ya chitose no aki ni awamu to suramu |
Picked chrysanthemums’ Dew dampens us Today – will we For a thousand years of autumns Decide to meet together? |
Higo, from the Residence of the Kyōgoku Regent
京極関白家肥後
Eikyū hyakushu 247
The Ninth Day of the Ninth Month
今日ごとに菊を薬とする人は千年のなかはすぐといふなり
| kyō goto ni kiku o kusuri to suru hito wa chitose no naka wa sugu to iu nari |
Every year today Chrysanthemums for medicine Do people take, that A thousand years together And more will they have, they say. |
Minamoto no Nakazane
源仲実