Composed at a place called Kisakata, when he had gone to Idewa Province .
世の中はかくても經けり象潟の海士の苫屋をわが宿にして
yo no naka Fa
kakute mo Fekeri
kisakata no
ama no tomaya wo
wa ga yado ni site
This world
Has come to such a pass;
In Kisakata,
Fisherfolks’ straw-matted huts
Have become my lodging!
The Monk Nōin
When she was sunk in gloomy thought, having no regular man.
あまの住む浦漕ぐ舟のかぢをなみ世を海わたる我ぞ悲しき
ama no sumu
ura kogu Fune no
kadi wo nami
yo wo umi wataru
ware zo kanasiki
The fisherfolk live
Within the bay, rowing boats;
Without oars
They are all at sea-how cruel the world
Where I am sunk in sadness.
Ono no Komachi
小野小町
In reply:
おぼろけの海人やはかづく伊勢の海の浪高き浦に生ふる見るめは
oborike no
ama ya Fa kaduku
ise no umi no
nami takaki ura ni
oFuru mirume Fa
Could such a mediocre
Fisherman harvest? I think not!
The sea at Ise
Sends waves high upon the shore
Where the algae grows!
Ise
伊勢
Topic unknown.
伊勢の海に遊海人ともなりにしか浪かきわけて見るめかづかむ
ise no umi ni
asobu ama to mo
narinisika
nami kakiwakete
mirume kadukamu
In the sea at Ise
A frolicking fisherman is what
I would become, for then
I’d plunge between the waves
To harvest algae-and a glimpse of you.
Ariwara no Narihira
在原業平
Composed and sent to someone he knew who had gone to Sumiyoshi.
住吉とあまはつぐともながゐすな人忘草おふといふなり
sumiyosi to
ama Fa tugu tomo
nagawi su na
Fito wasuregusa
oFu to iFu nari
Sumiyoshi is a pleasant place to stay,
So say the fisher-folk, yet
Do not stay there long, in Nagai;
The flower for forgetting folk
Blooms there, or so they say.
Mibu no Tadamine
壬生忠岑
Composed when he went to Naniwa.
なにはがたおふるたまもをかりそめのあまとぞ我はなりぬべらなる
naniFagata
oFuru tamamo wo
karisome no
ama to zo ware Fa
narinuberanaru
At the inlet of Naniwa
Thickly grows the jewelled weed:
Starting to cut it, briefly,
The fisher-folk and I,
Seem one and the same.
Tsurayuki
貫之
Topic unknown.
あまのすむ里のしるべにあらなくに怨みむとのみ人のいふらむ
ama no sumu
sato no sirube ni
aranaku ni
uramimu to nomi
Fito no iFuramu
Fisher folk live
In villages; where
I know not, yet
Constant complaints to see the shore
Are all he seems to say.
Ono no Komachi
小野小町
あさりする海人娘子らが袖通り濡れにし衣干せど乾かず
asari suru
amawotömera ga
sode töpori
nurinisi körömo
posedö kawakazu
Hunting fish,
The diver girls’
Sleeve soaked
Sodden clothes
Will never dry, try though they may.
海人娘子漁り焚く火のおぼほしく角の松原思ほゆるかも
amawotöme
izari taku pï nö
oboposiku
tuno nö matubara
omopoyuru ka mo
The diver girls
Kindled fishing fires
Are faint
As is Matsubara in Tsuno
Within my thoughts.
礒ごとに海人の釣舟泊てにけり我が船泊てむ礒の知らなく
iso götö ni
ama nö turibune
patenikeri
wa ga pune patemu
iso nö siranaku
On every single shore
Diver girls’ boats
Are beached;
Where my ship finds land,
Will be an unknown shore.
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