松浦川川の瀬光り鮎釣ると立たせる妹が裳の裾濡れぬ
maturagapa
kap no se pikari
ayu turu to
tataseru imo ga
mo no suso nurenu |
“At Matsura River
From the rushing waters shining
Sweetfish I will catch,”
So says my darling, standing there
Her dress-hem drenched! |
Ōtomo no Tabito
Topic unknown.
思ひかね妹狩り行けば冬の夜の河風さむみ千鳥鳴くなり
omoFikane
imogari yukeba
Fuyu no yo no
kaFa kaze samumi
tidori nakunari | Unable to bear this love
I set out for my darling,
On a winter’s night, when
The chill wind from off the river
Carries the plovers’ cries. |
Tsurayuki
Three Envoys.
あをによし奈良にある妹が高々に待つらむ心しかにはあらじか
awoniyosi
nara ni naru imo ga
takataka ni
maturamu kokoro
sika ni arazi ka |
As good blue-black clay,
Nara is where your darling
Eagerly
Awaits you; her heart
Will not always be so, will it? |
我妹子が我れを送ると白栲の袖漬つまでに泣きし思ほゆ
wagimoko ga
ware wo okuru to
sirotape no
sode pitu made ni
nakisi omopoyu |
My darling
Says she will see me off
With white mulberry
Sleeves soaked by
Her weeping, it seems. |
Composed in the conception of travel, when he presented a hundred poem sequence.
東路の野島が埼の浜風に我が紐ゆひし妹がかほのみ面影に見ゆ
azumadi no
nozima ga saki no
Famakaze ni
wa ga Fimo yuFisi
imo ga kaFo nomi
omokage ni miyu |
On Eastern roads
At Nojima Point
In the breeze from off the beach:
My belt was tied
By my darling, her face,
A vision, appears before me… |
Master of the Left Capital Office, Akisuke
左京大夫顕輔
On flowers.
我妹子に逢坂山のはだすすき穂には咲き出ず恋ひわたるかも
wagimoko ni
apusakayama no
padasusuki
po ni pa sakidezu
kopiwataru kamo |
O, my darling,
On Meeting Hill,
The silver grass
Buds have yet to bloom
But I will ever love you! |
Anonymous
小治田の板田の橋の壊れなば桁より行かむな恋ひそ我妹
oparida no
itada no pasi no
koporenaba
keta yori yukamu
nakopiso wagimo |
At Oharida
Should the bridge of Itada
Collapse
I would cross the spars to you, so
Miss me not, my darling! |
Anonymous
Left.
拂ひつる夜床は咎もなき物を來ぬ人ゆへにうとく成ぬる
haraitsuru
yodoko wa toga mo
naki mono o
konu hito yue ni
utoku narinuru |
I swept clean
My bed tonight, and faults
Has it none, but
Because he has failed to come
I hate it now! |
Kenshō.
829
Right.
戀かぬる我をばをきて誰にさは枕かはして妹が寢ぬらん
koi kanuru
ware o ba okite
tare ni sa wa
makura kawashite
imo ga nenuran |
Unable to bear this love
Am I, abandoned;
With whom, I wonder,
Does she swap pillows,
When my darling sleeps now? |
The Provisional Master of the Empress’ Household Office.
830
The Right state: we wonder about the use of ‘faults’ (toga). The Left state: this style of poem is commonplace.
In judgement: both Left and Right are the same level, and there is no difference between them.
吾妹子はさかよふ山の背はちかばあはじと人にかねてきかする
wagimoko wa
sakayou yama no
se wa chikaba
awaji to hito ni
kanete kikasuru |
My darling,
If I cross the mountains
And to the foot draw near,
“I will not meet you,” to him
I would long hear you say… |
Minamoto no Yorimasa
源頼政
天霧の夕ゐる雲にとぢられて妹まどはせる何おふ背の山
amagiri no
yuFu wiru kumo ni
todirarete
imo madoFaseru
nani oFu se no yama |
Heaven-hazing
Clouds at the fall of evening
Do shut her in:
My darling, confused, wonders
What conceals Se-no-yama! |
Minamoto no Shunrai
源俊頼
'Simply moving and elegant'