On seeing fisherfolk burning salt when he was on the road to Kumano, and felt particularly unwell.
旅の空夜半のけぶりとのぼりなばあまのもしほ火たくかとやみん
| tabi no sora yowa no keburi to noborinaba ama no mosiobi taku ka to ya min | Should into my travel’s skies One night as smoke I rise, The fisherfolk seaweed salt fires Kindling—would it appear so, I wonder? |
Former Emperor Kazan
On ‘Love and Travel’ at the Sumiyoshi Shrine Poetry Contest in Jōgen 2 [1209].
いかにせんせめては旅の空だのめむなしくまたん夕暮もがな
| ika ni sen semete wa tabi no soradanome munashiku matan yūgure mogana | O, what am I to do? At least, it’s due to travel’s Unreliable skies that Emptily I would wait This evening—if only that were so! |
Iehira, Junior Third Rank
従三位家衡
A travel poem, included in a hundred poem sequence sent to be read by the Monk En’i.
岩根ふみ峰の椎柴折りしきて雲に宿かるゆふぐれの空
| iFane Fumi mine no siFisiba worisikite kumo ni yadokaru yuFugure no sora |
Treading ‘cross the deep-rooted crags From brushwood on the peak I break branches and spread them Making my lodging beneath the clouds Gazing at the evening skies… |
Jakuren
Sent to the Crown Prince, from the Provinces, around the Fifth Month.
はるかなる深山がくれのほとゝぎす聞く人なしにねをやなくらむ
| Farukanaru miyamagakure no Fototogisu kiku Fito nasi ni ne wo ya nakuramu |
In the distant Mountains’ heart hidden Would the cuckoo, With no one to hear Cry out his call? |
Departing the capital and staying on the riverside at a place called Mitoshigawa, the moon was resting on the surface of the river.
月かげも旅の空とやおもふらん三としのかはのそこにやどれる
| tukikage mo tabi no sora to ya omoFuran mitosi no kaFa no soko ni yadoreru |
The moonlight, too, Does it journey from the skies, I wonder; Upon Mitoshi’s River Bed to find lodging… |