Left (Tie).
なをざりの小野の淺茅に置露も草葉にあまる秋の夕暮
| naozari no ono no asaji ni oku tsuyu mo kusaba ni amaru aki no yûgure |
Brief, indeed, Upon the sharp-leaved cogon grass in Ono, Is the dewfall Now mounting upon the blades In the autumn evening. |
45
Right
淺茅生の小野の篠原うちなびき遠方人に秋風ぞ吹く
| asajiu no ono no shinohara uchinabiki ochikatabito ni aki kaze zo fuku |
The sharp-leaved cogon grass In the arrow-bamboo of Ono, Rustled by A traveller to a distant land: The autumn wind a’blowing. |
46
Left (Tie).
櫻花うつろふ春をあまたへて身さへふりぬる淺茅生の宿
| sakurabana utsurou haru o amata hete mi sae furinuru asajiu no yado |
Cherry blossoming and Fading springs So many have I spent, that Even I have fallen into dotage, At my dwelling, all overgrown with spiky cogon grass. |
19
Right
櫻花うつりにけりなと計をなげきもあへずつもる春かな
| sakurabana utsurinikeri na to bakari o nageki mo aezu tsumoru haru kana |
‘The cherry blossoms Have already faded away,’ Simply that Cannot contain my grief, As one spring piles upon another. |
20
Composed at a time when she was thinking the world was not as it had always been.
物をのみ思ひしほどに儚くて淺ぢが末に世はなりにけり
| mono wo nomi omoFisi Fodo ni Fakanakute asadi ga suwe ni yo Fa narinikeri |
Gloom alone Is in my thoughts; Fleeting as Fronds of cogon grass Has this world become. |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部