よもぎふに露のおきしくあきのよはひとりぬるみもそでぞぬれける
| yomogyū ni tsuyu no okishiku aki no yo wa hitori nuru mi mo sode zo nurekeru | Upon the mugwort The dew falls, scattered On an autumn night; Sleeping alone, my Sleeves are drenched, indeed! |
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あしひきの山べによするしらなみはくれなゐふかくあきぞ見えける
| ashihiki no yamabe ni yosuru shiranami wa kurenai fukaku aki zo miekeru | Upon the leg-wearying Mountain meadows break The whitecaps; A deeper scarlet Does autumn reveal. |
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Scarlet lotus flowers floating on marsh water (緑沼紅蓮浮)
Left (Win)
みどりぬにうきたるはちすくれなゐにみづにごるなり波たつなゆめ
| midorinu ni ukitaru hatisu kurenawi ni midu nigorunari nami tatu na yume | Upon the green marsh Floats a lotus Its scarlet Stains the waters – O, rise not, you waves! |
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Right
紅のはちすうきたるみどりぬにしら波たてばこきまぜの花
| kurenawi no Fatisu ukitaru midorinu ni siranami tateba kokimaze no Fana | Scarlet, The lotus floats upon The green marsh, but When the whitecaps rise All jumbled will the flowers be… |
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[1]These poems are included in Fubokushō (XXIV: 11386) and (XXIV: 11387).
Cathay Folk 唐人
おしてるやちへの白波わけしのぎわがしき島にいかできつらん
| oshiteru ya chie no shiranami wake’shinogi wa ga shikishima ni ikade kitsuran | Sparkling are The thousandfold whitecaps Through which you forge your way To our scattered isles – How could you have made it? |
Nakazane
Love Interrupted by a Single Night 隔一夜恋
白波にゆらされてくるより竹の一夜もねねば恋しかりけり
| shiranami ni yurasarete kuru yoritake no hito yo mo neneba koishikarikeri | The whitecaps Toss to shore Bamboo flotsam; For even the span of a single night, I will not sleep For I love her so. |
Kanemasa
In return.
何にかは袖の濡るらん白浪の名残有りげも見えぬ心を
| nani ni ka Fa sode no nururan siranami no nagori arige mo mienu kokoro wo |
For what Should my sleeves seem so wet? The whitecaps Must have left a keepsake Unseen, in my heart… |
Taiyu
大輔
Topic unknown.
白浪はたてと衣にかさならすあかしもすまもおのかうらうら
| siranami Fa tatedo koromo ni kasanarazu akasi mo suma mo ono ga uraura |
The whitecaps Break, yet no sewn robes Are laid upon each other; Both Akashi and Suma, too Are lined with their own shores… |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
柿本人麻呂
On frogs.
背を早み落ちたぎちたる白波にかはづ鳴くなり朝夕ごとに
| se wo payami otitagititaru siranami ni kapadu nakunari asayupu goto ni |
The current flows so swift There are eddies making Whitecaps where The frogs do call, Morning and evening both… |
Anonymous
In the Tenryaku period, when the Ichijō Regent [Fujiwara no Koretada] was Head Chamberlain, His Majesty lost his belt to him while playing go. The games continued, and Koretada’s losses mounted, so His Majesty composed this poem to ask for the return of his belt.
白浪の打ちやかへすと待つほどに浜の真砂の数ぞ積もれる
| siranami no uti ya kaFesu to matu Fodo ni Fama no masago no kazu zo tumoreru |
Wondering when the whitecaps Will return, and While waiting The grains of sand upon the beach Increase in number! |
Emperor Murakami
Composed on the first snows falling atop the bridge.
白波の立ち渡るかと見ゆるかな浜名の橋にふれる初雪
| siranami no tatiwataru ka to miyuru kana Famana no Fasi ni Fureru Fatuyuki |
Whitecaps Have risen across it Or so it does seem; The bridge at Hamana With first snows fallen… |
Lady Owari [in service to] the former Kamo Virgin
前齋院尾張
霞しく門司の関地を見渡せば薄澄みわたる沖つ白波
| kasumishiku moji no sekichi o miwataseba ususumiwataru oki tsu shiranami |
Hazy Is the barrier ground at Moji: When I gaze across, Only just in sight are The whitecaps in the offing. |
Jakuren