The Beginning of Summer
Left
ふるさとはこだかけれどもきみならぬほととぎすにもうとまれにけり
furusato wa
kodakakeredomo
kimi naranu
hototogisu ni mo
utomarenikeri | Around this ancient estate
The trees grow high, yet
Not by you alone,
By the cuckoo, too
Am I despised. |
Tadamine
7
Right (Win)
やまがつのかきほにさけるうのはなはたがしろたへのころもかけしぞ
yamagatsu no
kakiho ni sakeru
u no hana wa
ta ga shirotae no
koromo kakeshi zo | Along the mountain man’s
Lattice fence bloom
Deutzia:
Whose white mulberry
Robes are hung there? |
Mitsune
8
Composed on the figure of a person waiting at the foot of a chrysanthemum.
花見つつ人待つときは白栲の袖かとのみぞあやまたれける
Fana mitutu
Fito matu toki Fa
shirotaFe no
sode ka to nomi zo
ayamatarekeru | While gazing at the blooms,
Awaiting his arrival,
Simply for white mulberry
Sleeves have I
Mistaken them… |
Tomonori
20
This poem was included in Kokinshū (V: 274).
我妹子が我れを送ると白栲の袖漬つまでに泣きし思ほゆ
wagimoko ga
ware wo okuru to
sirotape no
sode pitu made ni
nakisi omopoyu |
My darling
Says she will see me off
With white mulberry
Sleeves soaked by
Her weeping, it seems. |
'Simply moving and elegant'