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Rōnyaku gojusshu uta’awase 249

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…

Kunaikyō
498


SZS V: 333

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