葉かへせぬ歎の杜は冬来れど常にもかもな常しなへなり
| Fa kaesenu nageki no mori Fa Fuyu kuredo tune ni mo kamo na tokosinaFe nari |
The leaves never turn In Nageki’s sacred groves, where Winter comes, yet It is always that They are ever unchanging. |
Minamoto no Toshiyori
源俊頼
Tag Archives: winter
Kokin rokujō I: 234
君さらば山にかへりて冬毎に雪踏み分けておりよとぞ思ふ
| kimi saraba yama ni kaFerite Fuyugoto ni yuki Fumiwakete oriyo to zo omoFu |
If you should Return to the mountains, then With every winter Forge through the snow And descend, I beg you! |
Eikyū hyakushu 386
冬寒み霜冴ゆる夜は明けぬれど麻の衾ぞぬがれざりける
| fuyu samumi shimo sayu yo wa akenuredo asa no fusuma zo nugarezarikeru |
How cold the winter, and Chill the frost this night; It lightens, yet My hempen bedding I have not stripped off… |
Minamoto no Akinaka
源顕仲
Eikyū hyakushu 377
冬寒み霜はおけども椎柴の常磐の色はあせずもあるかな
| fuyu samumi shimo wa okedomo shiishiba no tokiwa no iro wa asezu mo aru kana |
In winter’s chill The frost falls, yet The brushwood’s Evergreen hues Fade not at all… |
Higo, from the Residence of the Kyōgoku Regent
京極関白家肥後
Eikyū hyakushu 356
冬深き野辺の御幸の今日しもあれ白斑の鷹を据てけるかな
| fuyu fukaki nobe no miyuki no kyō shi mo are shirau no taka o suetekeru kana |
In the depths of winter An imperial visit to the meadows Was there today, Hawks of white Would be ready there! |
Higo, from the Residence of the Kyōgoku Regent
京極関白家肥後
Eikyū hyakushu 342
冬寒み風もとまらぬ山里にいとど霙ぞ降りまさりける
| fuyu samumi kaze mo tomaranu yamazato ni itodo mizore zo furimasarikeru |
How cold the winter With unending wind Round my mountain home, where The sleet ever Stronger falls. |
Higo, from the Resisdence of the Kyōgoku Regent
京極関白家肥後
Yoshitada-shū 347
霙降り曇れる冬の晴れずのみつきせぬものやまろが身のうさ
| mizore furi kumoreru fuyu no harezu nomi tsukisenu mono ya maro ga mi no usa |
Sleet falling In a cloud-filled winter which Never clears; With no one near How desolate I am! |
Sone no Yoshitada
曽禰好忠
GSIS XI: 609
Sent to a woman at the beginning.
霜がれの冬野に立てるむら薄ほのめかさばや思ふ心を
| simogare no Fuyu no ni tateru mura susuki Fonomekasaba ya omoFu kokoro wo |
In frost-burned Winter meadows stand Clusters of silver grass; If only they would briefly reveal The feelings in my heart… |
Taira no Tsune’aki (?-1077)
平経章
Horikawa hyakushu 167
冬草と見えし春野の小笹原弥生の雨に深緑なる
| fuyu kusa to mieshi haruno no ozasawara yayoi no ame ni fukamidori naru |
A winter plant They did appear in the fields in springtime: The groves of young broad-leaved bamboo By the Third Month’s rains Turned the darkest green. |
Fujiwara no Nakazane
藤原仲実
SZS VI: 389
Composed on the conception of the beginning of winter at the time a hundred poem sequence was presented during the reign of Former Emperor Horikawa.
泉川水の水曲のふしづけに岩間の氷る冬は来にけり
| idumigaFa midu no miwada no Fusiduke ni iFama no koForu Fuyu Fa kinikeri |
On the River Izumi The water pools Around the fish-traps, Frozen between the rocks, Winter has come, indeed. |
Fujiwara no Nakazane
藤原仲実