Sages’ Dwellings 仙宮
いかにかく山ぢをいづる時のまにみし人もなくとしのへぬらん
| ika ni kaku yamaji o izuru toki no ma ni mishi hito mo naku toshi no henuran | How is it that Departing on mountain paths For but a brief space of time Without someone known so well Makes it seem that years have passed? |
Akinaka
Love on Parting 別恋
わかれにし人を恋ぢにまよふかないつをあひみん時ぞともなく
| wakarenishi hito o koiji ni mayou kana itsu o aimin toki zo tomo naku | That one who left me On the paths of love Must have lost his way! That time when we’ll meet Once more never will arrive… |
Higo
Ivy
多豆の木にはひおほはれる蔦にしも時しりがほに紅葉しにけり
| tazu no ki ni haiōwareru tsuta ni shimo toki shirigao ni momijishinikeri | The elder trees Are covered with trailing Ivy, which So aptly for the season Has turned completely scarlet. |
Fujiwarano Nakazane
藤原仲実
On thinking sad thoughts.
古衣打棄つる人は秋風の立ちくる時に物思ふものぞ
| purugoromo ututuru pito pa akikaze no tatikuru toki ni mono’omopu mono zo |
As a worn-out robe Did he abandon me; Now the autumn wind’s Time to rise has come Sunk is he in sorry thought! |
Left (Win).
恋ひわびて片敷く袖はかへせどもいつかは妹が夢に見えける
| koFiwabite katasiku sode Fa kaFesedomo itu ka Fa imo ga yume ni miekeru |
Tortured with love My single spread sleeve I do reverse, yet When will my darling Appear in my dreams? |
The Holy Teacher 闍梨
[Ryūgen 隆源]
29
Right.
我が心ときぞともなく乱るれど日だに暮るれば恋ひ添はりけり
| wa ga kokoro toki zo tomonaku midaruredo Fi dani kurureba koFisoFarikeri |
My heart With every passing hour Is more distraught, yet Even when the day does dim Love is my companion. |
Bichū 備中
[Minamoto no Nakazane 源仲実]
30
妹が家路みち黄昏になる時は垣根の花を訪ねてぞ行く
| imo ga iFedi miti tasogare ni naru toki Fa kakine no Fana wo tadunete zo yuku |
The way to my darling’s house is In full dusk; That is the hour The blossom in the brushwood fence I do go to visit! |
Frogs (蛙)
時あれやみなぶち山をあさゆけばこのもかのもにかはづ鳴くなり
| toki are ya minabuchiyama o asa yukeba konomo kanomo ni kawazu nakunari |
This is not the season for it, yet To Mount Minabuchi I go this morn, and All around and everywhere The frogs are singing. |
Toshiyori
俊頼