しのびつつなきわたりつるほととぎすあすもいつかとまたれこそすれ
| shinobitsutsu nakiwataritsuru hototogisu asu mo itsuka to matare koso sure | Ever secretly Has sung out The cuckoo— The morn, too, sometime He awaits! |
Fujiwara no Shigesuke, Chamberlain and Junior Lieutenant in the Outer Palace Guards, Right Division[i]
5
I say this seems only to be waiting for the morning and lacks a conception of tonight, so it loses.
[i] Fujiwara no Shigesuke 藤原重輔 () 蔵人右衛門少尉藤原重輔
うちしのびことかたらはむほととぎすあすはあやめのねにはたつとも
| uchishinobi koto katarawamu hototogisu asu wa ayame no ne ni wa tatsu tomo | So secretly Will whisper The cuckoo, that he With the morn, strangely, among the sweet flag Roots may raise a cry… |
Lord Nobumitsu, Head Chamberlain and Supernumerary Middle Captain of the Inner Palace Guards, Right Division[i]
3
[i] Minamoto no Nobumitsu 源延光 (927-976)
Topic unknown.
あすからはわかなつまんとしめし野にきのふもけふもゆきはふりつつ
| asu kara wa wakana tsuman to shimeshi no ni kinō mo kyō mo yuki wa furitsutsu | From the morrow I thought to pick fresh herbs, but Upon my roped off meadow Yesterday and today, too, The snow is ever falling… |
Yamabe no Akahito
Left (Tie)
はなみつつをしむかひなくけふくれてほかのはるとやあすはなりなむ
| hana mitsutsu oshimu kainaku kyō kurete hoka no haru to ya asu wa narinamu | Ever do I gaze upon the blossom, in Vain regret, for Today will end and A different spring will Greet me on the morrow! |
Mitsune
39
Right
けふのみとはるをおもはぬときだにもたつことやすきはなのかげかは
| kyō nomi to haru o omowanu toki dani mo tatsu koto ya suki hana no kage ka wa | “Only today is left Of spring”—I’ll not think that for Even at such a time, Is it easy to part from The blossoms’ shade? |
Mitsune
40[i]
‘Both of these are charming,’—they tied.
[i] This poem is included as the final spring poem in Kokinshū (II: 134), attributed to Mitsune, and with the headnote, ‘A poem on the end of spring from the Poetry Contest held by Former Emperor Uda’.
Composed on the conception of the moon over the water, at the residence of Supernumerary Middle Councillor Toshitada at Katsura.
あすも来む野路の玉川萩こえて色なる浪に月やどりけり
| asu mo komu nodi no tamakaFa Fagi koete ironaru nami ni tuki yadorikeri |
The morning comes, too, To Noji’s jewelled river; Over-running the bush-clover are Motley waves where The moon does lodge. |
Minamoto no Shunrai
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