Felicitations 賀
つきもせぬ君がよはひはいくちよとかぎれる竹の枝にやあるらん
| tsuki mo senu kimi ga yowai wa iku chiyo to kagireru take no eda ni ya aruran | Inexhaustible is My Lord’s age: How many thousand generations Limit it – a bamboo Branch might know! |
Daishin
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Eikyū hyakushu 609
Felicitations 賀
我が君をいはひこめつつ竹の枝ちよとちぎるはうれしかりけり
| wa ga kimi o iwaikometsutsu take no eda chiyo to chigiru wa ureshikarikeri | For My Lord While deep in celebration Upon a branch of bamboo ‘Live a thousand generations!’ I vow – What joy! |
Higo
Eikyū hyakushu 580
Katsura 桂
なが月の月の光のさゆるかなかつらの枝にしもやおくらん
| nagatsuki no tsuki no hikari no sayuru kana katsura no eda ni shimo ya okuran | In the longest month The moonlight is Chill, indeed! Upon the branches of the silver trees I wonder, does frost fall? |
Kanemasa
Eikyū hyakushu 578
Katsura 桂
人しれずけふをしまつと風はやみかつらの枝を折りもよわらず
| hito shirezu kyō o shimatsu to kaze hayami katsura no eda o ori mo yowarazu | Unknown to all For today have I made ready – Amid the rushing wind The katsura branches will I break without hesitation! |
Toshiyori
Eikyū hyakushu 577
Katsura 桂
我が身には吹くべき風も吹きこねばかつらの枝もをらずぞ有りける
| wa ga mi ni wa fukubeki kaze mo fukikoneba katsura no eda mo orazu zo arikeru | Upon my flesh I expect the touch of wind, but Not a gust does come, so The katsura branches, too, Have remained unbroken. |
Nakazane
Eikyū hyakushu 569
Sakaki 榊
ゆふしでやかけつついのることのははさかきがえだにしげるなるらん
| yūshide ya kaketsutsu inoru koto no ha wa sakaki no eda ni shigerunaruran | Mulberry cloth Hangs down, while the prayers’ Words Upon the branches of the sacred trees Do seem to grow ever thicker! |
Akinaka
Eikyū hyakushu 532
Groves 原
枝ごとにいくそのちよをちぎるらんその神世よりいきの松源
| eda goto ni iku sono chiyo o chigiruran sono kamiyo yori iki no matsubara | In every single branch Does live the thousand-generation Vow, perhaps? Enduring since the Age of Gods, The sacred pine groves of Iki. |
Higo
KKS II: 119
A party of ladies on their way home from Shiga came into the precincts of the Kazan temple and stood for a while beneath the wisteria; when they had gone, he composed this and sent it to them.
よそに見てかへらん人にふぢの花はひまつはれよ枝はおるとも
| yoso ni mite kaFeran Fito ni Fudi no Fana FaFimatuFare yo eda Fa oru tomo | A casual glance, and Then those girls are gone; O, wisteria blooms, Twine around and hold them here, Though your branches break… |
Archbishop Henjō
KKS II: 81
Composed on seeing cherry blossom flowing along the stream in the grounds of the Palace of the Crown Prince.
枝よりもあだにちりにし花なればおちても水の泡とこそなれ
| eda yori mo ada ni tirinisi Fana nareba otitemo midu no awa to koso nare | From the branch Have simply scattered These blossoms, so they are Fallen, yet the waters’ Foam have they become. |
Sugano no Takayo
Eikyū hyakushu 299
Ivy
そなれ松枝に錦のかかれるは木づたふ蔦の紅葉なりけり
| sonarematsu eda ni nishiki no kakareru wa kozudau tsuta no momiji narikeri | Twisted pines upon the shore Have branches with brocade All draped Trailing from tree to tree, the ivy Has turned scarlet. |
Minamoto no Kanemasa
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