はらへただ雪わけ衣ぬきをうすみつもればさむし山おろしの風
harae tada
yuki wakegoromo
nuki o usumi
tsumoreba samushi
yama’oroshi no kaze | Just blow it away!
For my snow-gear
Has scanty weft-threads, so
When it piles up, ‘tis so cold,
O, wild wind off the mountains! |
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まきの戸を朝あけの雲の衣手に雪を吹きまく山おろしの風
maki no to o
asa’ake no kumo no
koromode ni
yuki o fukimaku
yama’oroshi no kaze | My door of cedarwood
I open with the morning, and from the clouds
Onto my sleeves
Snow is blown, whipped by
The wild wind off the moutains. |
371
音羽山やまおろし吹きてあふ坂の関の小川はこほりわたれり
otowayama
yama’oroshi fukite
ausaka no
seki no ogawa wa
kōriwatareri | From Mount Otowa
The chill winter wind blows down to
Meeting Hill, where
The stream by the barrier has
Frozen over. |
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ほのぼのとあり明の月のつきかげにもみぢ吹きおろす山おろしのかぜ
honobono to
ariake no tsuki no
tsukikage ni
momiji fuki’orosu
yama’oroshi no kaze | Faintly
The dawntime moon’s
Light falls upon
Scarlet leaves blown down
By the wild mountain wind. |
Lord Minamoto no Sane’akira
Created with Soan.
Winter moonlight at a mountain retreat.
やまおろしのけしきばかりやふゆならむみやこなりせば秋のよの月
yama’oroshi no
keshiki bakari ya
fuyu naramu
miyako nariseba
aki no yo no tsuki | The wind howling down the mountain
Simply sets a scene of
Seeming winter, but
Were I in the capital,
An autumn night’s moon, would this be… |
'Simply moving and elegant'
