Kinkai wakashū 563

なにはがたみぎはのあしのいつまでかほにいでずしも秋を忍ばん

naniwagata
migiwa no ashi no
itsu made ka
ho ni idezu shimo
aki o shinoban
In Naniwa’s tidelands,
By the waterside reeds
How long must I
Refrain from bursting out, and
Repress the surfeit of it?[i]

563


[i] See: When the heart of a woman whom he had been visiting frequently showed no sign of melting, he sent this to her to say that months and years had passed and they were still in such a state. なにはがたみぎはのあしのおいがよに怨みてぞふる人の心を naniwagata/ migiwa no ashi no / oi ga yo ni / uramite zo furu / hito no kokoro o ‘In Naniwa’s tidelands / By the waterside the reeds / Growing old within this world / How I despise the passing time– / And your hard heart…’ Anonymous (Gosenshū XVI: 1170)

Yōzei’in ichi no miko himegimi uta’awase 07

Original

ひとこふるこころはそらにかよへばやそらもなみだもともにしぐるる

hito kouru
kokoro wa sora ni
kayoeba ya
sora mo namida mo
tomo ni shigururu
Yearning for him, does
My heart into the skies
And back fly?
The skies and my tears,
Both, are naught but showers…

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Left

ひとこふるこころはそらもなきものをいづこよりふるしぐれなるらむ

hito kouru
kokoro wa sora mo
naki mono o
izuko yori furu
shigure naruramu
Yearning for him,
My heart within the skies
Is not, so
Where is it that these falling
Showers might be from?

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Right

おほかたのものおもふときにしぐるるをあきのそらとはみゆるなるらん

ōkata no
mono’omou toki ni
shigururu o
aki no sora to wa
miyuru naruran
In general
When sunk in gloomy thought,
Showers fall—
How like the autumn skies
It does seem…

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Yōzei’in ichi no miko himegimi uta’awase 06

Original

さほやまのははそのいろはうすけれどあきはふかくもなりにけるかな

saoyama no
hahaso no iro wa
usukeredo
aki wa fukaku mo
narinikeru kana
On Mount Sao
The oaks’ hues are
Frail, yet
Autumn ever deeper
Grows!

Sakanoue no Korenori
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Left (Win)

さほやまのみねのもみぢばいろいろにたつあさぎりぞそらにしるらむ

saoyama no
mine no momijiba
iroiro ni
tatsu asagiri zo
sora ni shiruramu
On Mount Sao
The autumn leaves upon the peak
Have many hues—
The rising morning mists mean
That ‘tis surely known up in the skies.

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Right

うすきこきいろのかぎりぞさほやまはあきはつるまであさきとなみそ

usuki koki
iro no kagiri zo
saoyama wa
aki hatsuru made
asaki to na mi so
Both deep and pale
Hues are fair extreme!
But on Mount Sao
Until the end of autumn
Frail I would not have them be!

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SKKS I: 74

A spring poem, from the Poetry Contest in 1500 Rounds.

しら雲のたえまになびく青柳のかづらき山に春風ぞふく

shirakumo no
taema ni nabiku
aoyagi no
kazurakiyama ni
harukaze zo fuku
The clouds, so white,
Have rents, where trail
Green willows
‘pon the head of Kazuraki Mountain
Where gusts the breeze of spring!

Fujiwara no Masatsune

MYS XVII: 3901

[One of] Six poems new poems to harmonise and follow those on plum blossom, when he was at Dazai.

民布由都芸 芳流波吉多礼登 烏梅能芳奈 君尓之安良祢婆 遠久人毛奈之

みふゆつぎ はるはきたれど うめのはな きみにしあらねば おくひともなし

mipuyu tugi
paru pa kitaredo
ume no pana
kimi ni si araneba
oku pito mo nasi
After deep winter’s passing
Spring has come, and yet
The plum blossom
Is not you, my love, so
There’s no one to beckon me here…

Ōtomo no Fumimochi

MYS VIII: 1441

A poem on warblers by Ōtomo sukune Yakamochi.

打霧之 雪者零乍 然為我二 吾宅乃苑尓 鶯鳴裳

うちきらし ゆきはふりつつ しかすがに わぎへのそのに うぐひすなくも

utikirasi
yuki pa puritutu
sikasuga ni
wagipe no sono ni
ugupisu naku mo
All is darkened by
The ever-falling snow,
But even so
Within the garden of my home
Sings a warbler!