しらま弓いそべの山の松の色のときはにものをおもふころかな
| shiramayumi isobe no yama no matsu no iro no tokiwa ni mono o omou koso kana | The pure white bow of Mountains by the rocky shore, where The pines’ hues are Evergreen but more so my gloomy Thoughts of you! |
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Tōin senzai awase 14
MYS VI: 1010
A poem composed in reply to His Majesty by Tachibana sukune Naramaro.
奥山之 真木葉淩 零雪乃 零者雖益 地尓落目八方
| okuyama no maki no pa sinogi puru yuki no puri pa masu tomo tuti ni otime ya mo | Deep within the mountains Evergreen leaves are weighed down With falling snow, but Even should it keep on falling Will it ever tumble to the ground? |
Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta’awase 44
Round Eight
Left (Tie)
紅葉ばは紅ふかく成りゆけど独さめたる松の色かな
| momijiba wa kurenai fukaku nariyukedo hitori sametaru matsu no iro kana | The autumn leaves Deeply scarlet Are becoming, yet Singly, all the more aware am I Of the pine tree’s hues! |
Koreyuki
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Right
ははそ原しぐるるままにときは木のまれなりけるも今ぞみえける
| hahasowara shigururu mama ni tokiwagi no marenarikeru mo ima zo miekeru | As the oak groves Linger under showers, An evergreen, So rare, is What appears to me now. |
Kojijū
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Both Left and Right drop scarlet leave and are composed on evergreens, so they lack the essence of the topic, don’t they. The Right has the finer configuration, but autumn leaves, pointlessly, fail to appear in it. In addition, somewhat distastefully, it puts me in mind of the poem, ‘…Truly, evergreen / The pine tree seems’,[1] so the best these can do is tie.
[1] A poem from a poetry contest held by Her Majesty, the Empress, in the Kanpyō period. 雪ふりて年のくれぬる時こそつひにもみぢぬ松も見えけれ yuki furite / toshi no kurenuru / toki ni koso / tsui ni momijinu / matsu mo miekere ‘Snow falls and /The year reaches its evening, / It is at this time that / Truly, evergreen / The pine tree seems.’ Anonymous (KKS VI: 340)
Kinkai wakashū 234
Kinkai wakashū 153
KKS VII: 362
A poem written on a folding screen with paintings of the four seasons, created as a backdrop for the fortieth birthday celebrations of Lord Fujiwara, Major Captain of the Right, by the Principal Handmaid – Autumn.
秋くれど色もかはらぬときは山よそのもみぢを風ぞかしける
| aki kuredo iro mo kaFaranu tokiFayama yoso no momidi wo kaze zo kasikeru | Autumn has come, yet To the never changing hues on Evergreen Mountain Distant scarlet leaves The wind has lent! |
Sakanoe no Korenori
Yōzei-in uta’awase (Engi jūsan-nen kugatsu kokonoka) 22
Left
をしめどもとまらぬ秋は常盤山もみぢはてぬとみてもゆるさじ
| oshimedomo tomaranu aki wa tokiwayama momiji hatenu to mite mo yurusaji | I regret it, yet Autumn lingers not Upon the evergreen mountains The scarlet leaves have yet to end, I see and would not let them go. |
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Right
としごとにとまらぬ秋とおもひなばてもろき人もをしまざらまし
| toshigoto ni tomaranu aki to omoinaba temoroki hito mo oshimazaramashi | If, that every single year Autumn lingers not, I did not think, then Tear-filled folk I would not have regret it. |
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Yōzei-in uta’awase (Engi jūsan-nen kugatsu kokonoka) 05
Left (Tie)
しぐれつつ草ばもなべてもみづともときはの山にあきはとまれり
| shiguretsutsu kusaba mo nabete momizu to mo tokiwa no yama ni aki wa tomareri | Ever falls the drizzling rain, and Both leaves and grasses, all, Take on autumn hues, yet Within the evergreen mountains Autumn has halted. |
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Right
をしめども秋はとまらぬ竜田山もみぢを幣とそらにたむけん
| oshimedomo aki wa tomaranu tatsutayama momiji o nusa to sora ni tamuken | How I regret it, yet Autumn does not linger upon Tatsuta Mountain: Its autumn leaves as a garland To the skies it seems to offer. |
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Kinkai wakashū 39
As a poem on willows.
春くれば猶色まさる山しろのときはの杜の青柳のいと
| haru kureba nao iro masaru yamashiro no tokiwa no mori no aoyagi no ito | Spring has come, and Still their hues are beyond fine: In Yamashiro’s Evergreen forests— Pale green threads of willow. |
