Left.
我袖にむなしき浪はかけそめつ契もしらぬ床の浦風
| wa ga sode ni munashiki nami wa kakesometsu chigiri mo shiranu toko no urakaze |
Upon my sleeves, Vacantly, waves Have begun to break; All unknowing of our vows is The wind cross Bedding Bay… |
117
Right.
白玉の緒斷の橋の名もつらしくだけておつる袖の涙に
| shiratama no odae no hashi no na mo tsurashi kudaketeotsuru sode no namida ni |
White jewels on Broken-thread Bridge – The name does pierce my heart; A scattered fall of Tears upon my sleeves. |
118
Left (Tie).
世とゝもに吹上の濱のしほ風に靡く眞砂のくだけてぞ思ふ
| yo to tomo ni fukiage no hama no shio kaze ni nabiku masago no kudakete zo omou |
Long lasting as the world, Upon the beach at Fukiage By the tide-borne wind The streaming sands Are shattered as my thoughts of you. |
111
Right
住の江の松のねたくやよる浪のよるとはなげき夢をだに見で
| sumi no e no matsu no netaku ya yoru nami no yoru to wa nageki yume o dani mide |
The Suminoe Pines: how I envy them! Roots Washed by waves, My night is sunk in sorrow, Lacking e’en a glimpsed dream. |
112
Left (Win).
松が根をいそべの浪のうつたえにあらはれぬべき袖の上かな
| matsu ga ne o isobe no nami no utsutae ni arawarenubeki sode no ue kana |
The pine trees’ roots By stony shore bound waves Are struck, and Must stand revealed Upon my sleeves. |
103
Right
初雁のとわたる風のたよりにもあらぬ思ひを誰につたへん
| hatsukari no towataru kaze no tayori ni mo aranu omoi o tare ni tsutaen |
The first, returning goose, Borne before the gate of heaven, of the unseen wind Is no harbinger; Just so the fires of my love: To whom should I reveal them? |
104
Left (Tie).
網代木に櫻こませば行春のいさよふ浪をえやはとゞむる
| ajirogi ni sakura komaseba yuku haru no isayou nami o e ya wa todomuru |
Can stakes of fish traps, Mixed with cherry petals, Departing spring’s Impeded waves Bring to a halt, perhaps? |
27
Right
あはれいかに霞も花もなれなれて雲しく谷に歸る鶯
| aware ika ni kasumi mo hana mo narenarete kumo shiku tani ni kaeru uguisu |
O, however much The hazes and the blossoms We have come to love, To the cloud-strewn valleys The warbler does return. |
28
To the same lady, one morning as it was getting light when I had been by her shutters all night.
あけがたき二見の浦に寄る波の袖のみぬれしおきつしま人
| akegataki Futami no ura ni yoru nami no sode nomi nuresi okitusimabito |
Dawn comes unwillingly To the Bay of Futami, where The approaching waves Have drenched the sleeves of The offshore islanders. |
On the sound of waves at dawn, as they near the Coast of Gold in Paradise.
いにしへのおのへのかねににたるかなきしうつ浪の曉の聲
| inishie no onoe no kane ni nitaru kana kishi utsu nami no akatsuki no koe |
In times long gone Tolled the bell of Onoe Similar, I think, to Waves breaking upon the shore, The sound coming with the dawn. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成
On a folding screen of the moon, in the Engi period (901-923).
みそぎする河のせみればからころも日もゆふぐれに浪ぞたちける
| misogi suru kawa no semi nareba karakoromo hi mo yūgure ni nami zo tachikeru |
The purifying River rapids: all in Cathay robes Sashes wound around, at evening time The waves are rising. |
Tsurayuki
貫之
Composed on the spirit of a traveller’s lodging.
よしさらば磯の苫屋に旅ねせむ波懸ずとてぬれぬ袖かは
| yosi saraba iso no tomaya ni tabine semu nami kakezu tote nurenu sode ka Fa |
Well, so be it! In a shanty on the shore, I shall spend my journey’s night; Though not washed over by the waves, What is it that has soaked my sleeves? |
The Ninna-ji Monk-Priest [Shukaku]