Composed as a poem on blossom.
桜咲く比良の山風吹くままに花になりゆく志賀の浦浪
| sakura saku Fira no yamakaze Fuku mama ni Fana ni nariyuku siga no uranami |
Cherries flower on Hira Mountain while Breezes blow All turned to blossom are The waves on Shiga’s shore. |
Middle Captain of the Inner Palace Guards, Left Division, [Fujiwara no] Yoshitsune
左近中将良経
慕ひくる恋の奴の旅にても身のくせなれや夕とどろき
| sitaFikuru koFi no yatuko no tabi nite mo mi no kuse nare ya yuFu todoroki Fa |
Fondly longing A slave of love I travel, but Is is always to be that I Shall cry out with the evening? |
Minamoto no Toshiyori
源俊頼
This poem is also: Horikawa hyakushu 1224 and Sanboku kikashū VII: 997.
Composed as a poem on haze.
見渡せばそこと印の杉もなし霞のうちや三輪の山本
| miwataseba soko to sirusi no sugi mo nasi kasumi no uti ya miwa no yamamoto |
When I gaze across As sentinels there No cedars stand; Are you within the haze, O, Miwa Mountain’s foot? |
Captain of the Middle Palace Guards, Left Division, [Fujiwara no] Takafusa
左兵衛督隆房
Composed as a love poem when a hundred poem sequence was presented to former Emperor Sutoku.
恋をのみ菅田の池に水草ゐてすまでやみなむ名こそ惜しけれ
| koFi wo nomi sugata no ike ni mikusa wite sumade yaminamu na koso woshikere |
Our love is simply Form – Sugata Pond Fills with waterweed, and Grows stagnant – such an ending Leaves only regret… |
Ikuhōmon’in no Aki
郁芳門院安芸
This poem is also Kyūan hyakushu 1266.
Composed when a hundred poem sequence was presented to His Majesty, during the reign of Former Emperor Horikawa.
さまざまに心ぞとまる宮城野の花のいろいろ虫の声ごゑ
| samazama ni kokoro zo tomaru miyagino no Fana no iroiro musi no kowegowe |
So many things Do rest within my heart: On Miyagi plain The multicoloured blossom and The insects’ songs. |
Minamoto no Toshiyori
源俊頼
This poem is also Horikawa hyakushu 1400.
Composed at the residence of the Ōmiya Former Chancellor, on the conception of when the moon in autumn seems like summer.
小萩原また花咲かぬ宮城野の鹿や今宵の月に鳴くらん
| koFagiFara mata Fana sakanu miyagino no sika ya koyoFi no tuki ni nakuran |
The young bush clover meadows Are not yet in bloom; On Miyagi plain Do the stags tonight Cry to the moon, I wonder? |
Fujiwara no Atsunaka
藤原敦仲