Composed when the former Teishi Emperor made a progress to Naniwa.
君がため波の玉しくみつの浜ゆき過ぎがたしおりてひろはん
| kimi ga tame nami no tamashiku mitsu no hama yukisugigatashi orite hirowan | For my Lord’s sake The waves scatter gems On the beach at Mitsu— So hard it is to pass them by I would disembark and gather them up! |
Prince Sadakazu
The late Master of the Right Capital Office was Lord Muneyuki. While he was fretting over when he might achieve advancement, His Majesty, the Cloistered Teishi Emperor was presented with a stone with seaweed clinging to it from the province of Ki, and various people presented poems on the topic. The Master of the Right Capital Office composed
沖つ風ふけゐの浦にたつなみのなこりにさへや我はしつまん
| oki tsu kaze fukei no ura ni tatsu nami no nagori ni sae ya ware wa shitsuman | From the offing the wind blows Upon the beach at Fukei; Are the breaking waves Indeed a memento I might keep? |
Left (Tie)
こひわびぬかなしきこともなぐさめむいづれなぐさのはまべなるらむ
| koiwabinu kanashiki koto mo nagusamemu izure nagusa no hamabe naruramu | Suffering the pain of love and Sadness, too, I would be consoled, so Where might Nagusa Beach lie, I wonder? |
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Right
みぬ人のこひしきやなぞおぼつかなたれとかしらむゆめにみゆとも
| minu hito no koishiki ya nazo obotsukana tare to ka shiramu yume ni miyutomo | An unseen lady Do I love, but why? How strange it is— Is there any might know, Though I glimpse her in my dreams… |
Mitsune
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When a man who was Assistant Governor of Kii ceased to come to call, she sent this to the man’s elder sister to say how heartless this was and the sister sent this in reply, to say how she sympathized.
紀伊国の名草の浜は君なれや事のいふかひ有と聞きつる
| ki no kuni no nagusa no Fama Fa kimi nare ya koto no iFukaFi ari to kikituru | In the land of Ki Might consolation upon Nagusa Beach You find A shell? Saying it has some point Or so I have heard. |
Anonymous
Left
つれなきを今は恋ひじとおもへども心よわくもおつるなみだか
| tsurenaki o ima wa koiji to omoedomo kokoro yowaku mo ochitsuru namida ka | Heartless, She has ceased to love me I know, yet Is it from my feeble heart, that These tears fall? |
Sugano no Tadaomu
182[1]
Right
侘びわたる我が身のうらとなれればや恋しき事のしき波にたつ
| wabiwataru wa ga mi no ura to narereba ya koishiki koto no shikinami ni tatsu | Ever suffering, Have I, a beach Become? For My feelings of love Arise as endless waves… |
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[1] Kokinshū XV: 809/Shinsen man’yōshū 225