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Teiji-in uta’awase 33

Left

つゆばかりたのみおかなんことのはにしばしもとまるいのちありやと

tsuyu bakari
tanomi okanan
koto no ha ni
shibashi mo tomaru
inochi ari ya to
Dewdrop fragile
Is my trust that dripping
On the leaves, your words
A little longer might hold
My life here, perhaps…

66

Right

はるさめのよにふるそらもおもほえずくもゐながらにひとこふるみは

harusame no
yo ni furu sora mo
omohoezu
kumoi nagara ni
hito kouru mi wa
Spring showers
Fall from night time skies—living on
Is not for me, I think, for
Beyond the clouds lies
The one I love…

67

Sahyōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase 19

Left

つのくにのながらへゆかばわすれなくいまもみまくのほりえなるらむ

tsu no kuni no
nagara e yukaba
wasurenaku
ima mo mimaku no
horie naruramu
If, into the land of Tsu
To Nagara I go,
I’ll forget you not, and
Now to see you
More is what I want!

37

Right (Win)

ひさかたのくもゐはるかにありしよりそらにこころのなりにしものを

hisakata no
kumoi haruka ni
arishi yori
sora ni kokoro no
narinishi mono o
The eternal
Clouds distant
Ever were—so
In the skies, my heart
With them did dwell.

38

Sahyōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase 7

The Middle of Autumn

Left (Tie)

くもゐよりてりやまさるときよたきのそこにてもみむあきのつきかげ

kumoi yori
teri ya masaru to
kiyotaki no
soko nite mo mimu
aki no tsukikage
From the clouds
Does it shine most bright?
On Kiyotaki’s
Riverbed I see
Autumn moonlight.

13

Right

人しれぬねをやなくらんあきはぎのはなさくまでにしかのこゑせぬ

hito shirenu
ne o ya nakuran
aki hagi no
hana saku made ni
shika no koe senu
That no one may know
Quietly, does he cry?
Until the autumn bush clover
Blooms flower
The stag’s bell stays silent.

Mitsune
14

MYS III: 416

A poem composed by Prince Ōtsu, weeping, at Iware Pond, when he was due to die.

百傳 磐余池尓 鳴鴨乎 今日耳見哉 雲隠去牟

百伝ふ磐余の池に鳴く鴨を今日のみ見てや雲隠りなむ

momo tutapu
ipare no ike ni
naku kamo wo
kepu nomi mite ya
kumogakurinamu
A hundred tales
Told at Iware Pond
By the crying ducks
Do I see, today, at the last
As I vanish beyond the clouds?

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 86

Left

おもひにはあふ空さへやもえわたるあさたつ雲を煙とはして

omoi ni wa
au sora sae ya
moewataru
asa tatsu kumo o
keburi to wa shite
Is it our fires of passion
Meeting in the skies, and
Burning all?
The clouds rising with the morning
Have turned to smoke…

166

Right

明けぬとて帰る道にはこきたれて雨もなみだもふりそほちつつ

akenu tote
kaeru michi ni wa
kokitarete
ame mo namida mo
furisōchitsutsu
Tis the break of day, and
On the road back home
Descending sheets of
Rain, and my tears, too
Soak me to the skin…

Lord Toshiyuki
167[1]


[1] Kokinshū XIII: 639/Kokin rokujō V: 2732