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Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 72

Left

霜のうへに跡ふみつくる浜千鳥行へもなしと鳴きのみぞふる

shimo no ue ni
ato fumitsukuru
hamachidori
yukue mo nashi to
naki nomi zo suru
Upon the frost
Treading out tracks are
Plovers on the beach;
With no place to go,
They simply sing!

Okikaze
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Right

なみだ川みなぐばかりの淵はあれど氷とけねばかげもやどらぬ

namidagawa
mi nagu bakari no
fuchi wa aredo
kōri tokeneba
kage mo yadoranu
My river of tears,
Is fit to drown me in
It’s depths, yet
Should the ice not melt,
No sign will linger on…

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Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 18

Left

梅がかを袖にうつしてとどめては春はすぐともかたみならまし

mume ga ka o
sode ni utushite
todometeba
haru wa sugutomo
katami naramashi
If only the plums’ scent
Would shift to my sleeves and
Stay there, then
Even when spring is past and gone
A keepsake would it be…

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Right

行く春の跡だにありと見ましかば野べのまにまにとめましものを

yuku haru no
ato dani ari to
mimashikaba
nobe no manimani
tomemashi mono o
Departing spring’s
Very tracks
I would I saw, so
Simply in the meadows
Would I remain!

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[1] Kokinshū I: 46/Shinsen man’yōshū 21

Kanpyō no ōntoki chūgū uta’awase 12

Round Twelve

Left

冬の夜の月はとほくやわたりけんかげみしみづのまづしこほれば

fuyu no yo no
tsuki wa tōku ya
watariken
kage mishi mizu no
mazu shi kōreba
On a winter’s night
Does the moon distantly
Pass by? For
The waters where I saw its face
Are the first to freeze…

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Right

ながれくるみづこほりぬる冬さへやなほうき草のあとはさだめぬ

nagarekuru
mizu kōrinuru
fuyu sae ya
nao ukikusa no
ato wa sadamenu
Flowing down
The waters have frozen
With the winter, so will
The drifting waterweed still
Leave little trace?

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