Cold lingering in the ice.
山河に冬のしがらみかけとめて猶かぜさむくこほる春かな
yamakawa ni
fuyu no shigarami
kaketomete
nao kaze samuku
kōru haru kana | Across the mountain stream
Winter’s weir
Has been placed, and
Still the breeze, so cold,
Makes this an icy spring! |
The Kōmyōbuji Lay Priest and Former Chancellor and Minister of the Left
An allusive variation on KKS V: 303.
Fox Willow
いはやなぎはな色みれば山川の水のあやとぞあやまたれける
iwayanagi
hana iro mireba
yamakawa no
mizu no aya to zo
ayamatarekeru | When the fox willow
Blossoms’ hue I see,
The mountain stream’s
Waters have a pattern
That is strangely fine. |
16
石ばしる山下たぎつ山川の心砕けてこひやわたらむ
ishibashiru
yamashita tagitsu
yamakawa no
kokoro kudakete
koi ya wataramu | Running o’er the rocks, and
Rushing down the mountain goes
A torrent—
Shattering my heart,
Will this love go on and on… |
449
山河のせぜの岩波わきかへりおのれひとりや身をくだくらん
yamakawa no
seze no iwanami
wakikaeri
onore hitori ya
mi o kudakuran | In a mountain torrent’s
Rapids, waves upon the rocks
Burst and return—
Is it to be me, alone,
Whose very flesh is shattered? |
448
Blossoming Cherry
はなざくらちる山川は春もなほともまちがほの雪かとぞみる
hanazakura
chiru yamakawa wa
haru mo nao
tomomachigao no
yuki ka to zo miru | Blossoming cherry
Scatters ‘pon the mountain stream—as
Spring yet
Eagerly awaited friendly
Snow, does it appear, perhaps? |
3
冬ふかみ氷にとづる山川のくむ人なしととしやくれなむ
fuyu fukami
kōri ni tozuru
yamakawa no
kumu hito nashi to
toshi ya kurenamu | Deep in winter
Sealed with ice is
The mountain stream, with
Not one to scoop its waters—
Might that be how the year’s twilight falls? |
337
When she presented a hundred-poem sequence.
ちりかかるもみぢの色はふかけれどわたればにごる山川の水
chirikakaru
momiji no iro wa
fukakeredo
watareba nigoru
yamakawa no mizu | The fallen, scattered
Scarlet leaves’ hue is
Deep, indeed, yet
In crossing it, I muddy
The waters of a mountain stream. |
Sanuki, from the Nijō Palace
Created with Soan.
Love and Waterfalls
山河の滝ははやくもおもほえず恋の涙ぞおちまさりける
yamakawa no
taki wa hayaku mo
omohoezu
koi no namida zo
ochimasarikeru | A mountain river’s
Waterfall flows swift
Wouldn’t you think, but
The tears of my love
Faster fall by far. |
Kinoshita Takafumi
Sent when a man who had been talking to her over a number of years ceased to visit.
はやくよりあさきこころとみてしかばおもひたえにき山河の水
Fayaku yori
asaki kokoro to
mitesikaba
omoFitaeniki
yamakaFa no midu | If earlier
Your shallow feelings
I had noticed, then
My love would not have run, as
The waters of a mountain stream. |
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
ちるはなにせきとめらるるやま川のふかくも春のなりにけるかな
tiru Fana ni
sekitomeraruru
yamakaFa no
Fukaku mo Faru no
narinikeru kana | Fallen blossoms
Have completely dammed
The mountain stream,
So deep has spring
Become! |
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
'Simply moving and elegant'
