On the wind in the bamboo before the moon.
色かへぬ竹の葉しろく月さえてつもらぬ雪をはらふ秋かぜ
| iro kaenu take no ha shiroku tsuki saete tsumoranu yuki o harau akikaze | The evergreen Bamboo leave are white Beneath the chilly moon— Snow that never drifts With the brush of autumn breezes. |
Kunaikyō
He composed this, thinking of when his father Lord Yoshifumi had was in Tamazushima and composed:
和歌の浦に名をとどめけるゆゑあらば道しるべせよ玉津島姫
waka no ura ni / na o todomekeru / yue araba / michishirube seyo / tamazushima-hime
‘Upon the Bay of Waka / To leave my name— / If only there was a way, then / I would have you guide me, / O Princess of Tamazushima!’
尋行く和歌のうら路のはま千鳥跡ある方に道しるべせよ
| tazuneyuku waka no uraji no hamachidori ato aru kata ni michishirube seyo | Coming to pay a visit To the ways of Waka Bay, O, plovers on the beach, How to follow in your footsteps I would have you guide me! |
Lord Ki no Yoshito
紀淑氏朝臣
いとどしく頼まるるかな最上川しばしばかりのいなと見つれば
| itodoshiku tanomaruru kana mogamigawa shibashi bakari no ina to mitsureba |
O, how I am Beseeched! On Mogami River For just a little while The rice – your refusal – will fill my sight, then… |
Fujiwara no Shigeyuki (? – 995)
藤原相如
This poem is also no. 17 in Shigeyuki’s personal collection, Shigeyuki-shū .