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San’i minamoto no hirotsune ason uta’awase 16

Cranes in a garden (庭上鶴馴)

Left

庭の面に人になれたるあしたづはよはひをきみにゆづるなるべし

niwa no omo ni
hito ni naretaru
ashitazu wa
yowai o kimi ni
yuzurunarubeshi
Upon this garden’s face stands,
Accustomed to folk,
A crane;
His years to my Lord
Will he bestow, no doubt!

A Court Lady
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Right

千とせふるやどのけしきやしるからん汀のたづのなれにけるかな

chitose furu
yado no keshiki ya
shirukaran
migiwa no tazu no
narenikeru kana
Is it that a thousand years old
This dwelling does appear?
For to the muddy
Water’s edge the cranes
Have become accustomed!

A Court Lady
32

San’i minamoto no hirotsune ason uta’awase 1

Pine seedlings on the Day of the Rat (子日小松)

Left

ねの日する松の葉ごとにかぞふれば猶ぞつきせぬきみが千とせは

ne no hi suru
matsu no ha goto ni
kazoureba
nao zo tsukisenu
kimi ga chitose wa
On this Day of the Rat
Every single pine needle
I count, but
Still the number would not exhaust
The millennia of my Lord…

A Court Lady
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Right

はるかなる君がよはひにくらべむと子日の松をけふは引くかな

harukanaru
kimi ga yowai ni
kurabemu to
ne no hi no matsu o
kyō wa hiku kana
Distant is
My Lord’s age:
To what might it compare? Why
The Rat Day pines that
We pick today!

A Court Lady
2

Eikyū hyakushu 251

The Ninth Day of the Ninth Month

をるきくの露にぬれたるけふよりやちとせの秋にあはむとすらん

oru kiku no
tsuyu ni nuretaru
kyō yori ya
chitose no aki ni
awamu to suran
Picked chrysanthemums’
Dew dampens us
Today – will we
For a thousand years of autumns
Decide to meet together?

Higo, from the Residence of the Kyōgoku Regent
京極関白家肥後

Eikyū hyakushu 247

The Ninth Day of the Ninth Month

けふごとに菊を薬とする人はちとせのなかは過ぐといふなり

kyō goto ni
kiku o kusuri to
suru hito wa
chitose no naka wa
sugu to iu nari
Every year today
Chrysanthemums for medicine
Do people take, that
A thousand years together
And more will they have, they say.

Minamoto no Nakazane
源仲実