Love and Grasses.
我が恋は隠れぬにおふる草なれや思ふ心を知る人のなき
wa ga koi wa
kakurenu ni ouru
kusa nare ya
omou kokoro o
shiru hito no naki | Can my love
Lie hidden in the growing
Grasses?
For the feelings in my heart
Are known to no one at all… |
Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Love and Bridges.
同じくはいもがりゆかば恋すてふ名取の橋を踏まずもあらなん
onajiku wa
imogari yukaba
koisu chō
natori no hashi o
fumazu mo aranan | ‘Tis ever the same
If to my darling’s house I make my way,
To love,
Upon Natori’s loose-tongued bridge
I shall not set my foot. |
Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Love and Bridges.
難波がた入江に渡すまろき橋踏みそめしとや人は思はん
naniwagata
irie ni watasu
marokibashi
fumisomeshi to ya
hito wa omowan | At the Naniwa tidelands
Crossing the shore is
A bridge of logs;
Do I take that first step upon it?
Did someone think once… |
Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Love and Barriers.
恋しさをなげかざらまし吾妹子に逢坂山の関なかりせば
koishisa o
nagekazaramashi
wagimoko ni
ausakayama no
seki nakariseba | Her sweetness
Would be no source of sorrow,
Had not my darling
The Mount of Meeting Hill’s
Barrier before her… |
Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Love and Rivers.
思ふ事水ぐき河にかき流し見れど渡の人に見せなん
omou koto
mizuguki kawa
kakinagashi
miredo watari no
hito ni misenan | My feelings
As overflowing rivulets
Do race, and
Though they will be plain, to the surrounding
Folk shall I display them… |
Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Falling leaves.
紅葉ばの散りて積もれる竜田山流れも見えぬ谷の下水
momijiba no
chiritetsumoreru
tatsutayama
nagare mo mienu
tani no shitamizu |
The scarlet leaves
Have fallen into drifts on
Tatsuta Mountain, so
The currents are concealed,
Of the streamlets in the valley. |
Fujiwara no Tadamichi
'Simply moving and elegant'