夕されば霧たちくらしをぐら山やまのとかげに鹿ぞ鳴くなる
yū sareba
kiri tachikurashi
ogurayama
yama no tokage ni
shika zo nakunaru | When the evening comes, and
Mists seem to rise across
Gloomy Ogura Mountain
Within the mount’s eternal shade
A stag is belling. |
As a stag poem.
妻こふる鹿ぞなくなる小倉山やまの夕霧たちにけむかも
tsuma kouru
shika zo nakunaru
ogurayama
yama no yūgiri
tachinkemu kamo | Loving his mate
A stag cries out upon
Gloomy Ogura Mountain, where
Around the peak the evening mists
Have arisen, it seems! |
かり金はともまどはせりしがらきやまきのそま山きりたたるらし
kari ga ne wa
tomo madowaseri
shigaraki ya
maki no somayama
kiri tatarurashi | Goose cries,
Lost and friendless
Above Shigaraki’s
Evergreen timber mountain, where
The mists have arisen, it seems. |
足ひきのやまとびこゆる秋のかりいくへの霧をしのぎきぬらん
ashihiki no
yama tobikoyuru
aki no kari
ikue no kiri o
shinogikinuran | Across the leg-wearying
Mountains fly
The autumn geese:
How many misty layers
Must they have broken through? |
秋風に山とびこゆるはつ雁のつばさにわくるみねの白雲
akikaze ni
yama tobikoyuru
hatsukari no
tsubasa ni wakuru
mine no shirakumo | On the autumn wind,
Flying ‘cross the mountains,
The first geese
Part with their wings
The clouds so white above the peaks. |
Composed on geese.
かりなきて秋風さむく成りにけりひとりやねなんよるの衣うすし
kari nakite
akikaze samuku
narinikeri
hitori ya nenan
yoru no koromo usushi | The geese are crying, and
The autumn wind
So chill has grown,
Shall I, then, sleep alone
In a scanty night robe? |
むばたまの夜はふけぬらし雁がねの聞ゆる空に月かたぶきぬ
mubatama no
yo o fukenurashi
kari ga ne no
kikoyuru sora ni
tsuki katabukinu | Lily seed dark
Night does seem to break
With goose cries
Sounding from the skies
As the moon has set. |
あまのはらふりさけみればますかがみきよき月よに雁鳴きわたる
ama no hara
furisakemireba
masukagami
kiyoki tsukiyo ni
kari nakiwataru | When, upon the plain of Heaven
I upwards turn my gaze,
Across the clear mirror of
A pure moonlit night
The geese go crying as they cross. |
あまの戸をあけがたの空になく雁の翼の露にやどる月影
ama no to o
akegata no sora ni
naku kari no
tsubasa no tsuyu ni
yadoru tsukikage | As the gates of heaven
Open, brightening the sky,
The geese cry, with
Dewdrops on their wings, where
Moonlight lodges. |
鳴きわたる雁のはかぜに雲きえてよぶかき空にすめる月影
nakiwataru
kari no hakaze ni
kumo kiete
yobukaki sora ni
sumeru tsukikage | Crying as they cross,
The geese waft wind with their wings,
Clearing the clouds, and
Deep within the night, the sky fills
With clear moonlight. |
'Simply moving and elegant'
