Left (Tie).
網代木に櫻こませば行春のいさよふ浪をえやはとゞむる
| ajirogi ni sakura komaseba yuku haru no isayou nami o e ya wa todomuru |
Can stakes of fish traps, Mixed with cherry petals, Departing spring’s Impeded waves Bring to a halt, perhaps? |
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Right
あはれいかに霞も花もなれなれて雲しく谷に歸る鶯
| aware ika ni kasumi mo hana mo narenarete kumo shiku tani ni kaeru uguisu |
O, however much The hazes and the blossoms We have come to love, To the cloud-strewn valleys The warbler does return. |
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人聲にほつとしたやら夕櫻
| hito koe ni hotsu to shita yara yuzakura |
Amid the sound of voices Blushing stands An evening cherry. |
何櫻かざくら錢の世也けり
| nani sakura kazakura zeni no yo narikeri |
To see any cherry at all One need pay a fee In this world of ours. |
On the leaves on the trees: thinking to see the autumn leaves on the cherry trees at the end of autumn, he went deep into Yoshino; on resting on his cane a moment, feet hurting in his straw sandals:
木の葉散桜は輕し檜木笠
| ki no ha chiru sakura wa karushi hinoki gasa |
All the leaves have fallen and The cherries seem insubstantial As my cypress umbrella. |
(1684)
A certain person planted some cherry trees and then died in the Fourth Month of that year; on seeing them blooming for the first time the following year:
花見んとうへけん人もなきやどのさくらはこぞの春ぞさかまし
| hana min to ueken hito mo naki yado no sakura wa kozo no haru zo sakamashi |
To see the blossoms, Planting, you From home are gone; Had the cherries come last Spring, oh, how much better… |
Ōe no Yoshitoki (d.?1010)
Topic unknown.
おほあらきのもりのした草おいぬれば駒もすさめずかる人もなし
| oFoaraki no mori no sitakusa oinureba koma mo susameszu karu Fito mo nasi |
In Oaraki Forest the undergrowth Has grown so old It does not tempt my mount, Nor will any come to reap it. |
| sakura asa no woFu no sitakusa oinureba koma mo susameszu karu Fito mo nasi |
Cherry hemp Growing, the grass beneath it Has grown so old It does not tempt my mount, Nor will any come to reap it. |
Anonymous
A summer poem, from when she presented a hundred poem sequence to retired Emperor Sutoku.
さくらあさのをふのしたくさしげれたゞあかでわかれし花の名なれば
| sakura asa no ou no shitakusa shigere tada akade wakareshi hana no na nareba |
Cherry hemp Growing, the grass beneath it So lush! Simply Never sating – as parting Is in this blossom’s name…. |
Lady Asa of the Taikenmon Palace