Original
こまなべてきみがみにくるかすがのはまつかさしげしあめにさはるな
koma nabete kimi ga mi ni kuru kasugano wa matsukasa shigeshi ame ni sawaru na Mounts aligned,
43
Left (Win)
ぬれつつもあめにはゆかむまつかさのちとせのはるをもらさざらなむ
nuretsutsu mo ame ni wa yukamu matsukasa no chitose no haru o morasazaranamu Even dampened
44[1]
Right
かすがののまつかさだにもなかりせばあめふるさとにわれこましやは
kasugano no matsukasa dani mo nakariseba ame furu sato ni ware komashi ya wa If on Kasuga Plain
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[1] This poem is included in Ise-shū (107) with the headnote ‘From the time of the Kasuga Poetry Match’, implying that this is Ise’s work, even if she is not identified as the poet in the text here.
Original
かすがののけふのみゆきをまつばらのちとせのはるはきみがまにまに
kasugano no kyō no miyuki o matsubara no chitose no haru wa kimi ga manimani On Kasuga Plain [1]
Mitsune
Left
ゆくさきのはるをとほくしまかすればいまはちとせのうたがひもなし
yukusaki no haru o tōkushi makasureba ima wa chitose no utagai mo nashi Future
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Right (Win)
むれたちてわれをまつてふかすがののみどりふかくやおもひそめけむ
muretachite ware o matsu chō kasugano no midori fukaku ya omoisomekemu Growing crowded together, and
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[1] A minor variant of this poem occurs in Mitsune-shū (325) with the same headnote as for poem (22), above.
A poem by Kamō, the dancing girl.
雪嶋 巌尓殖有 奈泥之故波 千世尓開奴可 君之挿頭
ゆきのしま いはほにうゑたる なでしこは ちよにさかぬか きみがかざしに
yuki no sima Snow lies heavy on the garden’s
ちとせふるまつといふともうゑてみる人ぞかぞへてしるべかりける
chitose furu Through a thousand years has passed
Ise (in a certain volume)
On the shape of a pine tree floating in the pond at the Asuka Mansion.
いけみづにまつのみどりをうつしてぞちとせのかげもいろまさりける
ikemizu ni In the pond’s waters
Ōe no Masafusa
Composed at the Kameyama mansion, in the Eighth Month, Kenji 2 [September 1276], when the first topic announced was ‘the colour of pines floating on a pond’.
池水に松のちとせをうつしても君にふたたびあふがうれしさ
ikemizu ni In the pond waters
The Regent and Former Prime Minister
Composed for Her Majesty, to say that this year, she had the liberty to bond with the blossoms.
しらくもにまがふさくらのこずゑにてちとせの春をそらにしるかな
sirakumo ni The clouds, so white
Chūnagon, in service to Empress Taikenmon’in
On an old woman wiping her face with chrysanthemum dew on the ninth day of the Ninth Month.
けふまでに我をおもへば菊の上の露は千年の玉にざりける
kyō made ni Up until this day
Ki no Tsurayuki
Cranes in a garden (庭上鶴馴)
Left
庭の面に人になれたるあしたづはよはひをきみにゆづるなるべし
niwa no omo ni hito ni naretaru ashitazu wa yowai o kimi ni yuzurunarubeshi Upon this garden’s face stands,
A Court Lady
Right
千とせふるやどのけしきやしるからん汀のたづのなれにけるかな
chitose furu yado no keshiki ya shirukaran migiwa no tazu no narenikeru kana Is it that a thousand years old
A Court Lady
The Seventh Night 七夜
つるの子のちとせをふべきはじめとは七日よりこそ祝ひ初めけれ
tsuru no ko no A crane chick
Daishin
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