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KYS III: 173

Composed on the topic of ‘autumn wind at a hut in the fields’, when he had gone with various people to Lord Morokata’s residence at Unozu.

ゆふさればかどたのいなばおとづれてあしのまろやにあきかぜぞ吹く

yū sareba
kadota no inaba
otozurete
ashi no maroya ni
akikaze zo fuku
When the evening comes
The rice-seedling fronds before my door
Sound out—
Around this reed-roofed hut
The autumn wind is blowing.

Middle Councellor Tsunenobu

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

Hon’in sadaijin-ke uta’awase 03

Karukaya

Left

しらつゆにいろかはりゆくかるかやのほにいでてあきをあはれとぞ思ふ

shiratsuyu ni
iro kawariyuku
karukaya no
ho ni idete aki o
aware to zo omou
With silver dewfall
The hues do change
Of the pampas grass—
Fronds emerge and autumn’s
Sorrow I keenly feel.

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Right

よそめにはこともやすらにかるかやをなど秋風のふきみだるらん

yosome ni wa
koto mo yasura ni
karukaya o
nado akikaze no
fukimidaruran
When glanced at
So peaceful is
The pampas grass, so
Why might the autumn wind
Blow it to such confusion?

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Teishi-in ominaeshi uta’awase 19

なにしおへばあはれとおもふををみなへしたれをうしとかまだきうつろふ

na ni shi oeba
aware to omou o
ominaeshi
tare o ushi to ka
madaki utsurou
Bearing such a name,
She is dear, indeed, I feel, that
Maidenflower, but
Who is it that she does despise so,
That she fades so swiftly?

Mareyo
37

ちるはるをみなへしはなはあき風のふかむことをばくるしからじな

chiru haru o
mina heshi hana wa
akikaze no
fukamu koto oba
kurushikaraji na
Scattered in springtime
Have all the blossoms, so
When the autumn wind
Begins to blow
She suffers not, I think…

Motoyuki
38

Izumi shikibu-shū 193

On plucking the zither, playing the flute, and enjoying herself somewhere.

聞く人のみみさへさむく秋風に吹きあはせたる笛のこゑかな

kiku hito no
mimi sae samuku
akikaze ni
fukiawasetaru
fue no koe kana
The folk listening
Have even had their ear chilled
By the autumn breeze
Blowing to them together with
The flute’s notes!

Izumi Shikibu (?-976?)
和泉式部

Teishi-in ominaeshi uta’awase 05

Left

あさぎりとのべにむれたるをみなへしあきをすぐさずいひもとめなん

asagiri to
nobe ni muretaru
ominaeshi
aki o sugusazu
ii mo tomenan
Amid the morning mists
Upon the meadow clusters
A maidenflower
I’ll not let autumn pass by
Without a word to hold her here.

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Right

あきかぜのふきそめしよりをみなへしいろふかくのみみゆるのべかな

akikaze no
fukisomeshi yori
ominaeshi
iro fukaku nomi
miyuru nobe kana
Since the autumn wind
First began to blow,
The maidenflowers’
Hues have simply deepened,
Glimpsed upon the meadows!

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Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 54

Left

雁がねにおどろく秋のよを寒み虫のおりだす衣をぞきる

kari ga ne ni
odoroku aki no
yo o samumi
mushi no oridasu
koromo o zo kiru
The goose cries are
Startling on an autumn
Night so chill
The insects’ woven
Robes I will put on!

106[1]

Right

あき風はたがたむけとか紅葉ばをぬさにきりつつ吹きちらすらん

akikaze wa
ta ga tamuke to ka
momijiba o
nusa ni kiritsutsu
fukichirasuran
The autumn wind:
To whom does it make its offering
Of scarlet leaves?
Ever cutting them to streamers, and
Seeming to scatter them with its gusts…

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[1] Fubokushō XII: 4881

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 53

Left

はなすすきそよともすれば秋風の吹くかとぞきくひとり寝る夜は

hanasusuki
soyo tomo sureba
akikaze no
fuku ka to zo kiku
hitori nuru yo wa
When the silver grass fronds
Rustle all together,
I wonder if ‘tis our autumn wind
Blowing that I hear,
Tonight, as I sleep alone…

104[1]

Right

音にきく花見にくれば秋の野のみちさまだけにたちわたりつつ

oto ni kiku
hana mi ni kureba
aki no no no
michisamadake ni
tachiwataritsutsu
I have heard of
These blooms I have come to see, so
The autumn meadows
Blocking my way
Will I ever rise to cross…

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[1] Gosenshū VII: 353

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 48

Left

あき風にほころびぬらむ藤ばかまつづりさせてふきりぎりす鳴く

akikaze ni
hokorobinuramu
fujibakama
tsuzurisase chō
kirigirisu naku
The autumn wind
Seems to have burst the buds of
The asters
‘Sew them back together!’ say
The crickets’ cries.

Ariwara no Muneyana
94

Right

秋の夜のあめときこえて降りつるは風に散りつる紅葉なりけり

aki no yo no
ame to kikoete
furitsuru wa
kaze ni chiritsuru
momiji narikeri
On an autumn night
The sound of rain
Falling is
The wind scattered
Scarlet leaves.

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Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 45

Left

をみなへし匂へる野辺にやどりせばあやなくあだの名をやたちなん

ominaeshi
nioeru nobe ni
yadoriseba
ayanaku ada no
na o ya tachinan
A maidenflower
Shines in the meadows, and
Should I find lodging there,
Carelessly, would fickle
Rumour arise?

Ono no Yoshiki
88

Right

秋風にさそはれ来つる雁がねの雲ゐはるかにけふぞ聞ゆる

akikaze ni
sasowarekitsuru
kari ga ne no
kumoi haruka ni
kyō zo kikoyuru
On the autumn breeze
Has come, inviting,
A goose’s cry
From among the distant clouds
Today I hear it.

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