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Sahyōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase 6

The Beginning of Autumn

Left (Win—in a certain book Tie)

しぐれにもあめにもあらぬはつぎりのたつにもそらはさしくもりけり

shigure ni mo
ame ni mo aranu
hatsugiri no
tatsu ni mo sora wa
sashikumorikeri
Neither a shower
Nor rain,
The first mists
Simply rise into the skies
And cover all with cloud.

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Right

としごとにあふとはすれどたなばたのぬるよのかずぞすくなかりける

toshi goto ni
au to suredo
tanabata no
nuru yo no kazu zo
sukunakarikeru
Every year
She meets him, yet
The Weaver Maid’s
Nights of passion
Are few indeed.

Mitsune
12

SIS XVII: 1094

The morning after Tanabata, he received a poem which had been composed and sent to him from Mitsune’s house, so sent this in return.

あひ見ずてひとひも君にならはねばたなばたよりも我ぞまされる

aFimizute
Fito Fi mo kimi ni
naraFaneba
tanabata yori mo
ware zo masareru
Not meeting and
For even a single day from you
Parted, I am, so
Greater than the Weaver Maid’s
Are my swelling feelings.

Tsurayuki

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 84

Left

紅の色にはいでじかくれぬのしたにかよひてこひはしぬとも

kurenai no
iro ni wa ideji
kakure nu no
shita ni kayoite
koi wa shinu tomo
The crimson
Of passion I’ll not display,
Beneath this hidden marsh
Flow waters back and forth,
Though I die of this love.

Tomonori
162[1]

Right

契りけむ心ぞつらき織女の年に一たびあふはあふかは

chigirikemu
kokoro zo tsuraki
tanabata no
toshi ni hito tabi
au wa au ka wa
To be bound is
Hard on the heart, indeed!
Does the Weaver Maid
But once a year
Truly have a meeting?

Okikaze
163


[1] Kokinshū XIII: 661/Shinsen man’yōshū 199/Kokin rokujō III: 1683

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 51

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雁がねは風をさむみやはたおりめくだまく音のきりきりとする

kari ga ne wa
kaze o samumi ya
hataorime
kuda maku oto no
kirikiri to suru
Is it the goose cries that
Chill the wind so?
The Weaver Maid
Shuttling the weft makes
A clattering sound.

100

Right

うゑしとき花まちどほにありし菊うつろふ秋にあはんとやみし

ueshi toki
hana machidō ni
arishi kiku
utsurou aki ni
awamu to ya mishi
From planting time
Did I eagerly await
These chrysanthemums here:
That they would fade with autumn’s passing
Did I think it then…

Ōe no Chisato

101[1]


[1] Kokinshū V: 271/Shinsen man’yōshū 351/Kokin rokujō VI: 3753