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Kinkai wakashū 103

It must have been around the twentieth day of the Second Month, I think, when I was alone and gazing at the sky one evening as the new greenery was emerging in the north, and I composed this on hearing a goose call.

ながめつつおもふもかなしかへるかりゆくらんかたの夕ぐれの空

nagametsutsu
omou mo kanashi
kaeru kari
yukuran kata no
yūgure no sora
Ever gazing,
My thoughts are filled with sadness, as
Returning geese
Go out into
The twilight skies.
A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created by Soan.

SZS XIV: 873

Composed on the conception of secret love, when His Majesty’s gentlemen presented hundred poem sequences during the reign of former emperor Nijō.

月待つと人にはいひてながむればなぐさめがたきゆふぐれの空

tsuki matsu to
hito ni wa iite
nagamureba
nagusamegatai
yūgure no sora
‘I’m waiting for the moon,’
I say to folk, but
Gazing out,
I find no consolation in
The twilight skies.

Minister of Justice Norikane

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

Teiji-in uta’awase 29

Left

うつつにもゆめにもひとによるしあへばくれゆくばかりうれしきはなし

utsutsu ni mo
yume ni mo hito ni
yoru shi aeba
kureyuku bakari
ureshiki wa nashi
In reality and
In dreams both, ‘tis her
I meet at night, so
Until the twilight comes
I have no joy, at all.

Mitsune
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Right (Win)

たまもかるあまとはなしにきみこふるわがころもでのかわくときなき

tamamo karu
ama to wa nashi ni
kimi kouru
wa ga koromode no
kawaku toki naki
Reaping gemweed,
A seaman, I am not, but
Loving you, my lady,
My sleeves are
Dry for not a moment.

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