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Kyōgoku no miyasudokoro uta’awase 08

Original

きみしなほかくしかよはばいそのかみふるきみやこもふりじとぞおもふ

kimi shi nao
kaku shi kayowaba
isonokami
furuki miyako mo
furiji to zo omou
O, my Lady,
Should you thus ever visit
Isonokami, where at
Furu, the ancient capital, too,
Never stales, I feel![1]

Mitsune
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Left (Win)

かよふともしられじものをふるさとはかすがのやまのふもとならねば

kayou tomo
shirareji mono o
furusato wa
kasuga no yama no
fumoto naraneba
To ever visit there is something
Folk might not know, for
The ancient capital
Among Kasuga Mountain’s
Foothills does not lie…

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Right

はるごとにきてはみるともいそのかみふりにしさとのなにはかはらじ

haru goto ni
kite wa miru tomo
isonokami
furinishi sato no
nani wa kawaraji
Every single spring
I come to gaze, yet
At Isonokami,
Furu’s ancient capital
Does nothing ever change?

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[1] A variant of this poem occurs in Mitsune’s personal collection: When the Priestly Emperor’s Rokujō Lady of the Bedchamber visited Kasuga, I met and conversed with Lord Tadafusa, the Governor of Yamato, and he mentioned that he had been asked to compose eight quality poems in the name of his province, so I sent him two of my own. The date was the 7th day of the Third Month, Engi 21 [17.4.921]. きくになほかくしかよはばいそのかみふるきみやこもふりしとぞおもふ kiku ni nao / kaku shi kayowaba / isonokami / furuki Miyako mo / furishi to zo omou ‘O, I hear that / Should you ever thus visit / Isonokami, where at / Furu, the ancient capital, too, / Has grown old, I feel.’(Mitsune-shū 323)

KYS VI: 351

Sent to someone who had served the empress of former Emperor Ichijō, who gone to Hyūga province.

あかねさす日にむかひても思ひいでよみやこはしのぶながめすらんと

akane sasu
Fi ni mukaFitemo
omoFi’ideyo
miyako Fa sinobu
nagame suran to
Shining madder red
Toward the sun have you made your way, but
O, remember,
To recall the capital, and
Turn your gaze that way…

Her Majesty, the Empress

SKS I: 29

Composed during the reign of former Emperor Ichijō, when His Majesty was presented with a gift of some eightfold cherry blossom from Nara and, being in attendance, he ordered her to composed a poem on this gift of blossom.

いにしへのならの宮このやへざくらけふここのへににほひぬるかな

inishie no
nara no miyako no
yaezakura
kyō kokonoe ni
nioinuru kana
The ancient
Capital of Nara had
Eightfold cherry blossom, that
Today within the ninefold palace
Does shine!

Ise no Taiyū

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
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GSIS IX: 518

Composed at the Shirakawa Barrier, when he had gone to Michinoku.

宮こをばかすみとともにたちしかどあきかぜぞ吹くしらかはのせき

miyako woba
kasumi to tomo ni
tatisikado
akikaze zo Fuku
sirakaFa no seki
From the capital
Together with the haze
Did I depart, yet
The autumn wind, indeed, is blowing
At the Barrier of Shirakawa!

Monk Nōin

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
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SKKS X: 977

From the Poetry Contest in One Thousand Five Hundred Rounds.

おぼつかなみやこにすまぬ宮こどりこととふ人にいかがこたへし

obotsukana
miyako ni sumanu
miyakodori
koto tou hito ni
ikaga kotaeshi
How strange it is that
In the capital lives not
The capital bird—
To he who enquired of it
How did it reply?[i]

Gishūmon’in no Tango

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
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[i] An allusive variation on KKS IX: 411.

SZS XVI: 981

Composed when he composed a large number of poems about the moon.

さざなみや国つみかみのうらさびてふるき宮こに月ひとりすむ

sazanami ya
kunitumikami no
urasabite
Furuki miyako ni
tuki Fitori sumu
Wavelets have washed
The guardian god
Chilling his heart, for
At the ancient capital
The solitary moon shines clear.

The Hosshōji Lay Priest and Former Chancellor and Palace Minister

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
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