打靡 春去来者 小竹之末丹 尾羽打触而 鶯鳴毛
うちなびく はるさりくれば しののうれに をはうちふれて うぐひすなくも
utinabiku
paru sarikureba
sino no ure ni
wopa utipurete
ugupisu naku mo | When, trailing in,
Comes spring,
The leaf-tips of the arrow bamboo
Brush against the wings and tail
Of the singing warbler! |
巻向之 檜原毛未 雲居者 子松之末由 沫雪流
まきむくのひはらもいまだくもゐねばこまつがうれゆあわゆきながる
makimuku no
pibara mo imada
kumowineba
komatu ga ure yu
apayuki nagaru | In Makimuku
The cypress groves are as yet
Untouched by cloud, but
From the dwarf-pines’ tops
Snow spume oes run. |
On wind, from among His Former Majesty’s Miscellaneous poems.
ひびきくる松のうれより吹きおちて草にこゑやむ山の下風
hibikikuru
matsu no ure yori
fuki’ochite
kusa ni koe yamu
yama no shitakaze | Echoes come
From the pine-branch tips, as
Gusting down and
Losing its voice among the grass
Is the wind from off the mountains |
His Former Majesty [Fushimi]
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