While on the path across the Shiga Mountains, he met a large number of women, and later composed this and sent it to them.
あづさゆみはるの山辺をこえくれば道もさりあへず花ぞちりける
| adusa yumi Faru no yamabe o koekureba miti mo sariaFezu Fana zo tirikeru |
A catalpa bow When the springtime mountains I traverse I cannot pass along the way So many flowers have fallen! |
Tsurayuki
A poem composed for the Empress’ Poetry Competition during the Kanpyō Period.
み吉野の山べにさけるさくら花雪かとのみぞあやまたれける
| miyosino no yamabe ni sakeru sakurabana yuki ka to nomi zo ayamatarekeru |
In Yoshino By the mountains, the flowering Cherry blossoms: Simply for snow I did mistake them! |
Ki no Tomonori
Composed as a Spring Poem
おもふどち春の山邊に打群れてそこともいはぬ旅寢してしか
| omoFudoti Faru no yamabe ni utimurete soko tomo iFanu tabine sitesika |
My friends, In springtime in the mountain meadows Did we gather, Heedless of our place, Wanted we to sleep out on our trip! |
The Monk Sosei
素性