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夜をさむみねざめてきけばをしぞなく払ひもあへず霜やおくらん
| yo wo samumi nezamete kikeba wosi zo naku FaraFi mo aFezu simo ya okuran | Chill the night and On waking, I hear A mandarin drake a’crying For he cannot brush away The fallen frost, it seems. |
Anonymous
Category Archives: Gosenshū
GSS X: 635
When he had finally, after great effort, received a letter from a woman who would give him no reply.
跡みれば心なぐさのはまちどり今は声こそきかまほしけれ
| ato mireba kokoro nagusa no Famatidori ima Fa kowe koso kikamaFosikere | Seeing these tracks Does ease my heart Plover on the beach, but Now, it is your voice, indeed, That I long to hear more!’ |
Anonymous
GSS XVI: 1170
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
| naniFagata migiFa no asi no oFi ga yo ni uramite zo Furu Fito no kokoro wo | 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
GSS I: 33
GSS XVIII: 1271
Composed when I was at a certain place and telling tales with sundry others before a lady’s curtains and heard a woman’s voice – one of her attendants, no doubt – say, ‘He seems to be strangely knowledgeable about matters of the heart for such an old man!’
あはれてふ事にしるしはなけれどもいはではえこそあらぬ物なれ
| aFare teFu koto ni sirusi Fa nakeredomo iFade Fa e koso aranu mono nare | Of sensitivity Surface signs Are their none, yet Saying nothing, indeed, is What makes it plain! |
Tsurayuki
GSS IX: 509
When the Minamoto Minister had visited her, but then lately had not come to call, she caught a faint glimpse of him through a hole in the wall of her chamber, and sent him this.
まどろまぬかべにも人を見つるかなまさしからなん春の夜の夢
| madoromanu kabe ni mo Fito wo mituru kana masasikaranan Faru no yo no yume | Unable to sleep, Through my wall him I did glimpse! O, how I wish were true My dream this brief spring night… |
Suruga
