New Year’s Day
もろ人の花見む春のはじめとや今日は思ひのひらけぬるかな
| morobito no hana mimu haru no hajime to ya kyō wa omoi no hirakenuru kana | For crowds of folk Does blossom viewing springtime Begin, I wonder? Today such thoughts Have opened up! |
Daishin
Tag Archives: blossom
Ietaka-kyō hyakuban jika’awase 1
Left. Spring
あら玉の年もかはらぬふるさとの雪のうちにも春はきにけり
| aratama no toshi mo kawaranu furusato no yuki no uchi ni mo haru wa kinikeri |
To the fresh jeweled Year the change has yet to come, yet Around my familiar home Even within the snows The spring is here! |
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Ninnaji gojūshu, Kenkyū 1 [1190]
Right
冬ながら花ちる空のかすめるは雲のこなたに春やきつらむ
| fuyu nagara hana chiru sora no kasumeru wa kumo no konata ni haru ya kitsuramu |
It’s winter now, yet Are the blossom-scattering skies Hazed Beneath the clouds by The arrival of spring, perhaps? |
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Kyūan hyakushu 546
MYS VIII: 1423
SZS II: 89
Composed as a poem on blossom.
桜咲く比良の山風吹くままに花になりゆく志賀の浦浪
| sakura saku Fira no yamakaze Fuku mama ni Fana ni nariyuku siga no uranami |
Cherries flower on Hira Mountain while Breezes blow All turned to blossom are The waves on Shiga’s shore. |
Middle Captain of the Inner Palace Guards, Left Division, [Fujiwara no] Yoshitsune
左近中将良経
Kazan’in uta’awase 3
SIS XII: 732
SZS IV: 256
Composed when a hundred poem sequence was presented to His Majesty, during the reign of Former Emperor Horikawa.
さまざまに心ぞとまる宮城野の花のいろいろ虫の声ごゑ
| samazama ni kokoro zo tomaru miyagino no Fana no iroiro musi no kowegowe |
So many things Do rest within my heart: On Miyagi plain The multicoloured blossom and The insects’ songs. |
Minamoto no Toshiyori
源俊頼
This poem is also Horikawa hyakushu 1400.