春たてば雪げの水やぬるからん先もえ出づる下蕨かな
| haru tateba yukige no mizu ya nurukaran mazu moe’izuru sawarabi kana | When spring has risen, is it that The snow-touched waters are But a trickle, that First smoulders into bud Fresh bracken? |
[Minamoto no] Akinaka 顕仲
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SIS XI: 640
SIS XI: 637
Kinkai wakashū 702
When returning from a pilgrimage to the twin shrines, there was a river called the Maekawa running before my beachside lodging.[i] Rain had been falling, so the waters were extremely high—I composed this when we crossed the river at sunset.
浜べなるまへの川せを行く水のはやくもけふのくれにけるかな
| hamabe naru mae no kawase o yuku mizu no hayaku mo kyō no kurenikeru kana | On the beachside The Mae’s river rapids’ Waters flow As fast as today Draws into evening. |
702
[i] This lodging was at what is now Sakawa 酒匂 within the bounds of Odawara 小田原 on the coast of Sagami Bay (Higuchi 2016, 181)
Kinkai wakashū 698
A poem composed on seeing the lake at Hakone when I had made a pilgrimage to the twin shrines[i] the following year.[ii]
玉くしげはこねのみ海けけれあれやふたくにかけてなかにたゆたふ
| tamakushige hakone no miumi kekere are ya futakuni kakete naka ni tayutou | A jewelled comb, The fair waters of Hakone, Must have a heart, indeed, to Lie between two provinces, There adrift…[iii] |
698
[i] Hakone and Izu Shrines.
[ii] The reference here is obscure, but may refer to Sanetomo’s third pilgrimage to these shrines, which took place in the First Month, Kenryaku 3 [late January 1213] (Higuchi 2016, 182).
[iii] See: A song from Kai. かひがねをさやにも見しがけけれなくよこほりふせるさやの中山 kai ga ne o / saya ni mo mishi ga / kekerenaku / yokohori fuseru / saya no nakayama ‘The peaks of Kai / Clearly I would behold, but / Heartless, / You lie in my way, / O, Saya-no-Nakayama!’ Anonymous (Kokinshū XX: 1097)
Kokin rokujō III: 1667
Aru tokoro no uta’awase zassai
水の泡や種となるらむ浮草のまく人なみの上に生ふれば
| mizu no awa ya tane to naruramu ukikusa no maku hitonami no ue ni oureba | Might the foam upon the waters Be its seeds, perhaps? When the drifting waterweed Twines atop a wave Where it does grow… |
1[i]
山里は冬ぞさびしさまさりける人めも草もかれぬとおもへば
| yamazato wa fuyu zo sabishisa masarikeru hitome mo kusa mo karenu to omoeba | In a mountain retreat Winter’s loneliness Overwhelms As both folks’ gaze and the grasses, too Have withered away, I feel… |
2[ii]
今日人をこふる心はあすか川流るる水に劣らざりけり
| kyō hito o kouru kokoro wa asukagawa nagaruru mizu ni otorazarikeri | Today, for her The love within my heart, By the River Asuka’s Running waters Will not be outdone! |
[i] This poem is included in Shūishū (IX: 524) as an anonymous poem with the headnote ‘Produced but not matched in a poetry contest.’
[ii] This poem is included in Muneyuki-shū (15) with the headnote ‘For a poetry match’.
[iii] This poem is included in Muneyuki-shū (16) with the headnote ‘For a poetry match’.
