夕顔の茂みにすだく轡虫おびただしくも恋ひ叫ぶかな
yuFugaFo no
Among the moonflowers’
Minamoto no Shunrai
今朝見ずはまがひなましを夕顔の垣根に白く咲ける卯の花
kesa mizu wa
This morning I failed to see, but
Ōe no Masafusa
This poem is also Eshishū 379
寄りてこそそれかとも見めたそかれにほのぼの見つる花の夕顔
yorite koso
Indeed!
心あてにそれかとぞ見る白露の光そへたる夕顔の花
kokoro ate ni
I wonder
朝顔の朝露置きて咲くと言へど夕顔にこそ匂ひましけれ
asagao no
Upon the morning glory
Fans (扇)
神神に心ながさをちかふともききひらきてぞあふぎなるへき
kamigami ni kokoro nagasa o chikau tomo kiki hirakite zo ōgi narubeki To all the Gods
Toshiyori
Fans (扇)
ふりつみし雪に心のかよへばやあふぎの風のすずしかるらむ
furitsumishi yuki ni kokoro no kayoeba ya ōgi no kaze no suzushikaruramu Through fallen, drifted
Fujiwara no Nakazane
Fans (扇)
つねよりも身にもしむかな夕ざれの君にあふぎのかぜの気色は
tsune yori mo mi ni mo shimu kana yūsare no kimi ni ōgi no kaze no keshiki wa More than normal does
Minamoto no Akinaka
An allusive variation on: Horikawa hyakushu 646 .
天の川扇の風に雲晴れて空澄みわたる鵲の橋
ama no kaFa
Upon the River of Heaven,
Kiyowara no Motosuke
This poem is also Wakan rōeishū 202.
On the 21st day of the Fifth Month Tenroku 4 [973], former emperor En’yū, who was then the sovereign, visited the Princess of the First Order [Shishi 資子] and, following a loss at a game with go counters, on the 7th day of the Seventh Month, the Princess had a fan wrapped in thin cloth and presented to the imperial pantry.
天の川河辺涼しき七夕に扇の風を猶やかさまし
ama no kaFa
On the River of Heaven’s
Nakatsukasa
This poem is also Wakan rōeishū 201.
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