人ならばまててふべきをほととぎすふたこゑとだにきかですぎぬる
| hito naraba mate chōbeki o hototogisu futa koe to dani kikade suginuru | Were you a man, ‘Wait!’ is what I’d tell you, O, cuckoo! For without even a second call For me to hear have you passed by. |
Fujiwara no Motozane
Monthly Archives: June 2023
KYS VIII: 477
SIS I: 18
Tsurayuki-shū 105
[One of] eight poems composed for painting of folk sleeping beneath the cherry blossoms on a folding screen in the palace of the Heir Apparent, in the Fouth Month, Engi 18 [May, 918].
かつみつつあかずとおもふに桜花散りなむ後ぞかねて恋しき
| katsu mitsutsu akazu to omofu ni sakurabana chirinamu nochi zo kanete koishiki | Ever did I once gaze on you, and Feel that never would I get my fill, O, cherry blossoms, But now you are scattered I long for you as before… |
Ki no Tsurayuki
MYS VIII: 1637
A poem by His Majesty, the Retired Emperor [Genshō].
波太須珠寸 尾花逆葺 黒木用 造有室者 迄萬代
はだすすき尾花逆葺き黒木もち造れる室は万代までに
| hadasusuki obana sakapuki kuroki moti tukureru muro pa yoroduyo made ni | Silver Grass, reversed, for thatch, and With unbarked lumber Made, this rude dwelling For ten thousand generations, surely will endure… |
MYS XIV: 3368
MYS III: 328
Fubokushō IX: 3353
MYS X: 1938
SShKKS XIII: 1329
On ‘Love and Travel’ at the Sumiyoshi Shrine Poetry Contest in Jōgen 2 [1209].
いかにせんせめては旅の空だのめむなしくまたん夕暮もがな
| ika ni sen semete wa tabi no soradanome munashiku matan yūgure mogana | O, what am I to do? At least, it’s due to travel’s Unreliable skies that Emptily I would wait This evening—if only that were so! |
Iehira, Junior Third Rank
従三位家衡