甲斐無くて月日はふれど年暮れて仏の御名を聞くぞうれしき
| kainakute tsukihi wa furedo toshi kurete hotoke no mina o kiku zo ureshiki |
Pointlessly The days and months go by, yet At year’s twilight The Buddhas’ names I hear with joy! |
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Eikyū hyakushu 408
年のうちに積もれる罪も消えぬらむ三世の仏の御名を唱へて
| toshi no uchi ni tsumoreru tsumi mo kienuramu miyo no hotoke no mina o tonaete |
Within the year Our accumulated sins, too, Seem to disappear At the three worlds’ Buddhas’ Names recitation! |
Minamoto no Nakazane
源仲実
Miwako naishin’ō no ie no uta’awase 10
Left.
年のうちにつもれる罪を残さじと三世の仏の名をぞ唱ふる
| toshi no uchi ni tsumoreru tsumi o nokosaji to miyo no hotoke no na o zo tonauru |
Within this year I have accumulated sins, that I would not have linger at The three worlds’ Buddhas’ Names recitation! |
Seji 宣旨
19
Right.
君が代を三世の仏に年を経て返す返すも祈るべき哉
| kimi ga yo o miyo no hotoke ni toshi o hete kaesugaesu mo inorubeki kana |
That Your Highness reign The three worlds’ Buddhas’ Years shall pass through Again and yet again Shall be my only prayer! |
Hyōe 兵衛
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Wakan rōeishū I: 395
新玉の年も暮れれば作りけむ罪も残らずなりやしぬらむ
| aratama no toshi mo kurureba tsukurikemu tsumi mo nokorazu nari ya shinuramu |
The bright jewel of The year fades into dusk, and Let the sins I have committed, All be gone – O, I would that it were so… |
Taira no Kanemori
平兼盛
Kokin rokujō I: 233
年のうちに積もれる罪はかきくらし降る白雪とともに消えなむ
| tosi no uti ni tumoreru tumi Fa kakikurasi Furu sirayuki to tomo ni kienamu |
Within the year My accumulated sins Leave me in darkness; With the falling snow so white I wish they would disappear! |
Ki no Tsurayuki
紀貫之
GSIS VI: 424
Sent around the end of the Twelfth Month from the province of Bizen to the residence of the Controller of Dewa.
都へは年と共にぞ歸るべきやがて春をもむかへがてらに
| miyako Fe Fa tosi to tomo ni zo kaFerubeki yagate Faru wo mo mukaFe gatera ni |
To the capital Along with the year I must return; At last, with the spring Shall I proceed together! |
Minamoto no Tameyoshi
源為善
Bunji roku nen nyōgo jūdai waka 82
幾返り今日のみあれに葵草頼みをかけて年の経ぬらむ
| iku kaFeri keFu nomi are ni aFuFigusa tanomi wo kakete tosi no Fenuramu |
How many times has it been? For this festive day Hollyhocks, For prayers hung, and The passage of another year marked… |
Fujiwara no Sanekata
Eikyū hyakushu 133
年を経て今日翳しくる葵草神に頼みをかくるしるしか
| toshi o hete kyō kazashikuru aoigusa kami ni tanomi o kakuru shirushi ka |
A year has gone by, and Today, all come garlanded with Hollyhocks; To the Gods, a secret Prayer made manifest, perhaps? |
GSIS III: 231
Composed on seeming like the cool of an autumn evening at Lord Toshitsuna’s house.
夏山の楢の葉そよぐ夕暮はことしも秋の心地こそすれ
| natuyama no nara no Fa soyogu yuFugure Fa kotosi mo aki no kokoti koso sure |
In the summer mountains The oak leaves whisper softly With the evening: This year, too, autumn Feels upon me… |
Minamoto no Yoritsuna (1025-1097)
源頼綱
SIS XX: 1309
In the final month of the year in which the wife of Middle Councillor Kanesuke had died, Tsurayuki paid him a visit and composed this while they were talking sadly.
恋ふる間に年の暮れなば亡き人の別やいとゞ遠くなりなん
| koFuru ma ni tosi no kurenaba nakibito no wakare ya itodo toFokunarinan |
While thinking fondly of her Should the year come to an end, She, who’s dead, Will be parted even Further from us… |
Ki no Tsurayuki