Composed on drizzle, for a notebook match held at the residence of Fujiwara no Chikako, Junior Second Rank.
しぐれつつかつちるやまのもみぢ葉をいかにふくよのあらしなるらん
| siguretutu katu tiru yama no momidiba wo ika ni fuku yo no arashi naruran | Constant drizzle falls All over the mountain’s scattered Scarlet leaves, so It may as well blow through the world: The storming wind! |
Master of the Palace Repairs Office Akisue
Composed on the conception of the very end of the year.
なにごとをまつとはなしにあけくれてことしもけふに成りにけるかな
| nani goto wo matu to Fa nasi ni akekurete kotosi mo keFu ni narinikeru kana | What have I To wait for? Nothing! So I have passed the days and nights This year and now today Has arrived! |
Middle Counsellor Kunizane
Composed on the topic of ‘autumn wind at a hut in the fields’, when he had gone with various people to Lord Morokata’s residence at Unozu.
ゆふさればかどたのいなばおとづれてあしのまろやにあきかぜぞ吹く
| yū sareba kadota no inaba otozurete ashi no maroya ni akikaze zo fuku | When the evening comes The rice-seedling fronds before my door Sound out— Around this reed-roofed hut The autumn wind is blowing. |
Middle Councellor Tsunenobu
Composed on the scent of plum blossom at night.
むめがえにかぜやふくらん春の夜はをらぬ袖さへにほひぬるかな
| mume ga e ni kaze ya Fukuran Faru no yo Fa woranu sode saFe nioFinuru kana | Are the plum trees’ branches Being blown by the wind? On a night in springtime Even unfolded sleeves Give forth a scent! |
Nagafusa, Former Assistant Governor General of the Dazaifu
A poem composed on the conception of showers at a poetry competition held at the house of Lord Toshitada.
五月雨に水まさるらし沢田川真木の継橋うきぬばかりに
| samidare ni midu masarurasi sawadagaFa maki no tugiFasi ukinu bakari ni |
In the showers The waters seem to rise so high At Sawada River That the bridge of boards Does just float upon it! |
Fujiwara no Akinaka (1059-1129)
藤原顕仲
This poem is also:
Sakon gonchūjō toshitada ason ke uta’awase 6
左近権中将俊忠朝臣家歌合
(‘Poetry Contest held at the Residence of Lord Toshitada, Provisional Middle Captain of the Inner Palace Guards, Left Division’; 1104)
On the conception of falling flowers.
春ごとにおなじ櫻の花なれば惜しむ心もかはらざりけり
| Faru goto ni onazi sakura no Fana nareba oshimu kokoro mo kaFazarikeri |
Each and every spring Just the same the cherry Blossoms, So, too, my feelings of regret, Are unchanging. |
The Mother of Lord Nagazane
In reply:
朝戸あけて春の木末の雪みれば初花ともやいふべかるらん
| asato akete Faru no kozuwe no yuki mireba FatuFana tomo ya iFubekaruran |
On opening my morning door, and In springtime on the treetops Snow seeing, ‘First flowers’, perhaps I should call it… |
Master of the Crown Prince’s Household Office [Fujiwara no] Kinzane (1053-1107)
Sent around the First Day of the First Month, when snow was falling:
あらたまの年のはじめに降りしけば初雪とこそいふべからりけれ
| aratama no tosi no Fadime ni Furisikeba Fatuyuki to koso iFubekarikere | When at the jewel-bright, new Year’s beginning It falls so heavily, ‘First snow’, I should call it. |
Master of the Office of Palace Repairs [Fujiwara no] Akisue (1055-1123)