はるのほどはわがすむいほのともに成りてふるすないでそ谷の鶯
| haru no hodo wa wa ga sumu io no tomo ni narite furusu na ide so tani no uguisu | While spring endures At the hut where I do dwell My companion be, and Depart not from your former nest, O, warbler in my valley! |
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A warbler in the rain.
鶯のはるさめざめとなきゐたるたけのしづくやなみだなるらん
| uguisu no harusamezame to naki’itaru take no shizuku ya namida naruran | A warbler In a spring shower lets fall His cries: Are the droplets on the bamboo His tears, perhaps?[i] |
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[i] See: Warbler [uguhisu]. 心から花のしづくにそほちつつうくひずとのみ鳥のなくらむ kokoro kara / hana no shizuku ni / sōchitsutsu / uku hizu to nomi / tori no nakuramu ‘Even his heart / By droplets from the blossoms / Is ever drenched: / Sadly simply never dry, / Does the bird seem to cry…’ Lord Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (Kokinshū X: 422); and: When he was staying somewhere with bamboo before his bedroom. 竹ちかくよどこねはせじ鶯のなく声きけばあさいせられず take chikaku / yodoko ne wa seji / uguisu no / naku koe kikeba / asa irarezu ‘Close by the bamboo / My bed, but sleep eludes me, for / When the warbler’s / Crying song I hear / I cannot doze away the morning.’ Lord Fujiwara no Korehira (Gosenshū II: 48)
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On spring, from among the hundred poem sequence for the Poetry Contest in 1500 Rounds.
明けやらぬ谷の戸過ぐる春風にまづさそはるるうぐひすの声
| akeyaranu tani no to suguru harukaze ni mazu sasowaruru uguisu no koe | No bright opening for The valley’s door, though the passing Breeze of spring First invites The warbler’s song…[i] |
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[i] See: Sent on the 1st day of the Fourth Month, when Kintō, Captain of the Outer Palace Guards, Right Division had been in seclusion for a while. 谷の戸をとぢやはてつる鶯のまつにおとせではるもすぎぬる tani no to o / toji ya wa hatetsuru / uguisu no / matsu ni otosede / haru mo suginuru ‘Is the valley’s door / Firmly shut, for / The warbler, / Awaited, makes no sound as / Spring wears on?’ The Minister of the Left (Shūishū XVI: 1064)