霞しく門司の関地を見渡せば薄澄みわたる沖つ白波
| kasumishiku moji no sekichi o miwataseba ususumiwataru oki tsu shiranami |
Hazy Is the barrier ground at Moji: When I gaze across, Only just in sight are The whitecaps in the offing. |
Jakuren
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Sengohyakuban uta’awase 1648
Shunzei gosha hyakushu 389
Rin’yōshū 903
KYS VII: 379
Sent to a woman who had fled from him.
恋すてふ門司の関守いく度かわれ書きつらむ心づくしに
| koFisu teFu mozi no sekimori iku tabi ka ware kakituramu kokoro dukusi ni |
Love – with that Word I am warden of the barrier at Moji; How many times have I written it? To the utter exhaustion of my heart! |
Fujiwara no Akisuke (1090-1155)
藤原顕輔
This poem is also: Akisuke-shū 顕輔集 (1155?) 5.
Yoshinobu-shū 257
Ama no tekora-shū
Ama no tekora-shū 42
SKS VI: 184
When Lord Tachibana no Tamenaka left to become Governor of Michinoku, this was presented from pantry of the Grand Empress Dowager, without any mention of who had sent it.
東路のはるけき道を行かへりいつかとくべき下紐の関
| adumadi no Farukeki miti wo yukikaFeri ituka tokubeki sitaFimo no seki |
On Eastern paths So distant Will you go, and then return When, indeed, will you undo The barrier of Shitahimo – my under-belt again? |
Anonymous
SZS II: 103
Composed when he had gone to Michinoku, and saw the flowers blooming at the barrier of Nakoso.
吹く風を勿来の関と思へども道もせに散る山桜かな
| Fuku kaze wo nakoso no seki to omoFedomo mitimose ni tiru yamazakura kana |
The gusting wind Comes not to the barrier of Nakoso, I thought, yet The road is blocked with fallen Mountain cherry blossom. |
Minamoto no Yoshi’ie (1039-1106)
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