Autumn.
あきふかきもみぢのいろのくれなゐにふりいでてなくしかのこゑかな
aki fukaki momiji no iro no kurenai ni furi’idete naku shika no koe kana | In autumn’s depths Upon the leaves’ hue So scarlet A clearing wash cries With a stag’s bell! |
Topic unknown.
もみぢせぬときはの山にすむしかはおのれなきてや秋をしるらん
momidisenu tokiFa no yama ni sumu sika Fa onore nakite ya aki o siruran | The leaves don’t turn On the mount at Tokiwa, so Dwelling there, does the stag From his own cries Realise ‘tis autumn, perhaps? |
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
Composed in the Ninth Month, in the year I was twelve.
はなすすきまねくたもとはあまたあれど秋はとまらぬものにぞありける
hanasusuki maneku tamoto wa amata aredo aki wa tomaranu mono ni zo arikeru | Of blossoming silver grass Beckoning sleeves Are there many, yet Autumn I cannot hold Here at all. |
For a folding screen for the residence of Minamoto no Kiyokage, Captain of the Palace Guards, Right Division.
ひととせにひとよとおもへどたなばたのあひ見む秋の限なきかな
Fito tose ni Fitoyo to omoFedo tanabata no aFimimu aki no kagiri naki kana | In a single year A single night of passion, yet The Weaver Maid Longs to meet every autumn Unending! |
Topic unknown.
秋はきぬ竜田の山も見てしかなしぐれぬさきに色やかはると
aki Fa kinu tatuta no yama mo mitesi kana sigurenu saki ni iro ya kaFaru to | Autumn has come, so The mount of Tatsuta I would see! While the showers have yet to fall, I wonder, has it changed its hues? |
Anonymous
Composed at the beginning of autumn.
夏衣まだひとへなるうたたねに心してふけ秋のはつ風
natugoromo mada FitoFenaru utatane ni kokoro site Fuke aki no Fatukaze | In summer garb Still of but a single layer I lie dozing, so Blow with care, O, first breeze of autumn! |
Dharma Master Anpō
安法法師
When he was crossing over Mount Moru.
葦引の山の山もりもる山も紅葉せさする秋はきにけり
asiFiki no yama no yamamori moruyama mo momidisesasuru aki Fa kinikeri | Even on the leg-wearying Mountain, where wardens Guard, Moru Mount, Turned to scarlet are the leaves— Autumn has come! |
Tsurayuki
Left (Tie)
いつもかくさびしきものかつの国のあし屋の里の秋の夕暮
itsumo kaku sabishiki mono ka tsu no kuni no ashiya no sato no aki no yūgure | Are they always such Lonely things? In the land of Tsu, Reed-roofed villages On an autumn evening… |
Ietaka
497
Right
千代までや松をばともにおもふらんなほすゑ遠き君がよはひを
chiyo made ya matsu oba tomo ni omouran nao suedōki kimi ga yowai o
| Until a thousand ages pass Will you be together with the pine I wonder, for Even further into the future Stretches your age…
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Kunaikyō
498
春秋はかはり行くともわたつ海のなかなる島の松ぞ久しき
haru aki wa kawariyuku tomo watatsumi no nakanaru shima no matsu zo hisashiki | The springs and autumns May turn on, yet In the broad sea sweep Lying, an isle has Pines eternal. |
691
Composed as an insect poem, when he composed a hundred poem sequence bewailing his sorry lot around the Hōen period [1135-1141].
さりともとおもふこころもむしのねもよわりはてぬる秋のくれかな
saritomo to omoFu kokoro mo musi no ne mo yowariFatenuru aki no kure kana | That’s just how it is I thought within my heart, too, As the insects’ cries, too Weakened On an autumn evening! |
Master of the Dowager Empress Household Office Toshinari
'Simply moving and elegant'