さけばかつうつろふやまの桜ばな花のあたりに風なふきそも
| sakeba katsu utsurou yama no sakurabana hana no atari ni kaze na fuki so mo | Blooming, so at long last Shining on the mountain are The cherry blossoms; Around the blooms O, wind, don’t you blow! |
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Kinkai wakashū 88
Kinkai wakashū 69
Entō ōn’uta’awase 12
Round Twelve
Left
うつり行く花の下道跡もなしながめも白き春の山風
| utsuriyuku hana no shita michi ato mo nashi nagame mo shiroki haru no yamakaze | The shifting Blossom on the paths beneath Leaves no footprints there; My gaze with whiteness filled By spring’s breezes in the mountains. |
Dōchin
23
Right (Win)
身にかへておもふもくるし桜花さかぬみ山に宿もとめてん
| mi ni kaete omou mo kurushi sakurabana sakanu miyama ni yado mo tometen | It should be me instead, I think, but even that brings pain; Where cherry blossoms Fail to bloom, deep within the mountains Should I make my home. |
Dharma Master Nyokan
24
The Left’s poem does not sound poor, but has ‘gaze with whiteness’—a long time ago, Lay Priest Toshinari repeatedly said that it is not appropriate to compose about looking at something specific using ‘gaze’. The initial and concluding section of the Right’s poem sound fine—it should win.
SZS I: 56
As a poem on blossom, when he presented a hundred poem sequence to Former Emperor Sutoku.
かづらきやたかまの山のさくら花雲井のよそにみてや過ぎなん
| kaduragi ya takama no yama no sakurabana kumowi no yoso ni mite ya suginan | In Kazuragi On the peak of Takama are Cherry blossoms: Being beyond the clouds Should I overlook them? |
Master of the Left Capital Office Akisuke
Kinkai wakashū 60
For a folding screen depicting a large number of travellers lying beneath blossom.
木のもとにやどりはすべし桜花ちらまくをしみ旅ならなくに
| ko no moto ni yadori wa subeshi sakurabana chiramaku oshimi tabi naranaku ni | Beneath this tree Let me lodge a while, for The cherry blossoms’ Scattering I do regret, so I’ve no cause to journey on my way… |
Tsurayuki-shū 105
[One of] eight poems composed for painting of folk sleeping beneath the cherry blossoms on a folding screen in the palace of the Heir Apparent, in the Fouth Month, Engi 18 [May, 918].
かつみつつあかずとおもふに桜花散りなむ後ぞかねて恋しき
| katsu mitsutsu akazu to omofu ni sakurabana chirinamu nochi zo kanete koishiki | Ever did I once gaze on you, and Feel that never would I get my fill, O, cherry blossoms, But now you are scattered I long for you as before… |
Ki no Tsurayuki
GSIS II: 145
Composed on seeing scattered cherry blossoms floating on the stream at his house.
ここにこぬ人もみよとてさくらばな水の心にまかせてぞやる
| koko ni konu Fito mo miyo tote sakurabana midu no kokoro ni makasete zo yaru | To folk who fail to come Here, I’d say, ‘Behold!’ O, cherry blossoms, The water’s heart I’ll trust, to send you on your way. |
Ōe no Yoshitoki