At a mountain hut
山ふかみ秋かぜ吹かぬねざめだに月にはみつる床の涙を
| yama fukami akikaze fukanu nezame dani tsuki ni wa mitsuru toko no namida o | Deep within the mountains When the autumn wind fails to blow, Even waking then The moon fills The teardrops on my pillow… |
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Shunzei-kyō no musume-shū 9
Genji monogatari 761
Shunzei-kyō no musume-shū 6
Summer
沢水に秋風ちかし行く蛍まがふ光もかげみだれつつ
| sawamizu ni akikaze chikashi yuku hotaru magau hikari mo kage midaretsutsu | To the waters of the marsh Nears the autumn breeze; Flitting fireflies’ Tangled lights, too, Ever make confused shapes…[i] |
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[i] An allusive variation on: Topic unknown. ゆく螢雲の上までいぬべくは秋風吹くと雁に告げこせ yuku hotaru / kumo no ue made / inubeku wa / aki kaze fuku to / kari ni tsugekose ‘O, flitting fireflies, / Beyond the clouds / Should you ascend, then say, / ‘ The Autumn wind is blowing!’ / To the geese.’ Narihira (Gosenshū V: 252)
Chūgū nyōbō uta’awase 6
SIS III: 143
SIS III: 142
Yōzei’in ichi no miko himegimi uta’awase 12
Original
あきかぜはくものうへまでふきのぼれつきのかつらのちりちらずみむ
| akikaze wa kumo no ue made fukinobore tsuki no katsura no chiri chirazu mimu | O, autumn wind Above the clouds Blow high! For the silver trees upon the moon I would see scatter, or scatter not! |
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Left (Win)
くものうへにかぜはふかせじもみぢばをつきのうちだにちらさでをみむ
| kumo no ue ni kaze wa fukaseji momijiba o tsuki no uchi dani chirasade o mimu | Above the clouds The wind will not blow, I hope! For even the scarlet leaves Beneath the moon Unscattered I would behold… |
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Right
そらながらあまのかはかぜさむければつきのかつらはとまりしもせじ
| sora nagara ama no kawakaze samukereba tsuki no katsura wa tomarishi mo seji | Within the skies The wind o’er Heaven’s river Is chill, so The silver trees upon the moon Will not have lingered, I think. |
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Kinkai wakashū 606
今こむとたのめし人はみえなくに秋風さむみ雁は来にけり
| ima komu to tanomeshi hito wa mienaku ni akikaze samumi kari wa kinikeri | ‘I’m coming now,’ I trusted those words of his, but There is no sign, only, Carried on the chill autumn wind Have the geese appeared.[i] |
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[i] See: Topic unknown. いまこむとたのめしことをわすれずはこのゆふぐれの月やまつらん ima komu to / tanomeshi koto o / wasurezu wa / kono yūgure no / tsuki ya matsuran ‘ “I’m coming now,” / If, that she trusted those words of mine / She has not forgotten, then / This evening / The moon might she be awaiting, too? ’ Fujiwara no Hideyoshi (Shinkokinshū XIII: 1203)
Kinkai wakashū 605
I sent this to the residence of someone, who had gone to a distant province, when they had said they’d return around the Eighth Month and there had been no sign of them by the Ninth.
| komu to shimo tanomenu uwa no sora ni dani akikaze fukeba kari wa kinikeri | That they would come, even I Do not expect of the heights of The heavens, but When the autumn wind has blown, The geese have arrived.[i] |
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[i] See: Love carried on the wind. きくやいかにうはのそらなる風だにもまつにおとするならひありとは kiku ya ika ni / uwa no sora naru / kaze dani mo / matsu ni otosuru / narai ari to wa ‘Do you hear it? Well? / From the heavens’ heights / Even the wind, / To come whispering among the pines / Has grown accustomed.’ Kunaikyō (Shinkokinshū XIII: 1199); and: A poem from the poetry competition at Prince Koresada’s house. 秋風にはつかりがねぞきこゆなるたがたまづさをかけてきつらむ akikaze ni / hatsukari ga ne zo / kikoyunaru / ta ga tamazusa o / kaketekitsuran ‘On the autumn wind / Come the first goose cries. / I hear them; / Whose letters / Do they bring, I wonder?’ Ki no Tomonori (Kokinshū IV: 207)