Cranes from a famous spot.
をくれゐて道まよへとは和歌の浦による鳴鶴やおもはざるらむ
| okure ite michi mayoe to wa waka no ura ni yoru naku tsuru ya omowazaruramu |
Left behind I am lost upon the paths: At Waka Bay The crane crying in the night, Does he not think so, too… |
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Entō Onhyakushu 84
夕月夜入江に塩や滿ちぬらん芦のうら葉の鶴の諸聲
| yūzukuyo irie ni shio ya michinuran ashi no uraba no tazu no morogoe |
On moonlit nights In the inlet do the tides Reach their peak, perhaps? From the reed tips comes The calling of the cranes. |
aki no sora
shiogoshi ya
samidare ni
SKKS X: 897
Written when on a visit to the province of Ise in the tenth month of the twelfth year of Tenpyō (743).
いもにこひわかの松ばらみわたせばしほひのかたにたづなきわたる
| imo ni koi waka no matsubara miwataseba shioi no kata ni tazu nakiwataru |
Thinking of my love, At Matsubara in Waka, As I look out Across the mud-flats A crane’s cry drifts across, and I go weeping on my way. |
Emperor Shōmu (701-756, r. 724-749)
SZS X: 624
When the gentlemen of the court were presenting hundred-poem sequences, He composed this on the spirit of celebration.
白雲にはねうちつけてとぶ鶴の遙に千世の思ほゆるかな
| siragumo ni Fane utitukete tobu tadu no Faruka ni titose no omoFoyuru kana |
Upon the clouds so white, Beating wings, The flying cranes- A distant prospect of a thousand years I feel. |
Emperor Nijō
二条天皇
SKS V: 167
The day after someone’s third son had had his coming-of-age ceremony, Motosuke sent this to him.
松島の磯にむれゐる蘆鶴のをのがさまざまみえし千代かな
| matusima no iso ni murewiru asitadu no wono ga samazama miesi tiyo kana |
At Matsushima’s Rocky shore, the flocking Cranes among the reeds, Each and every one Has seen a thousand passing years. |
KKS XVII: 914
When Tsurayuki was in the province of Izumi, Tadafusa came over from Yamato and composed and sent this poem.
君を思ひおきつのはまになくたづの尋ねくればぞありとだにきく
| kimi wo omoFi okitu no Fama ni naku tadu no tadune kureba zo ari to dani kiku |
Concerned for you By Okitsu beach The calling cranes Come and enquire Finding you in good health, at least. |
Fujiwara no Tadafusa