まだきにぞつみに来にけるはるばると今もえ出づるのべのさわらび
| madaki ni zo tsumi ni kinikeru harubaru to ima moe’izuru nobe no sawarabi | Already, indeed, Have I come to pick, After so long, Now busting into bud Fresh bracken from the fields. |
Kii 紀伊
On topics from the Six Volumes: Bracken.
うちかへす片山畑のさわらびのしたにもゆるもあらはれにけり
| uchikaesu katayamahata no sawarabi no shita ni moyuru mo arawarenikeri | Tilling The fields on the mountainside, Fresh bracken’s Secret shoots, smouldering, Have been revealed! |
The Kinugasa Minister of the Centre
[Kinugasa no Ieyoshi 衣笠家良 (1192-1264)]
Left — Maidenflowers
うつろへるところありともをみなへしのべのふるさとわすれざらなむ
| utsuroeru tokoro ari tomo ominaeshi nobe no furusato wasurezaranamu | Faded Spots they have, yet, Maidenflowers At an old estate among the fields Never will I forget! |
7
Right
あきののにあだなのみたつをみなへし花さかぬまはしる人ぞなき
| aki no no ni adana nomi tatsu ominaeshi hana sakanu ma wa shiru hito zo naki | In the autumn plains Faithless rumours, alone, arise Of my maidenflower— But while she is not in bloom, There’s no one knows, at all! |
8


Maidenflowers
Left
あきかぜはふかずもあらなむをみなへししるもしらぬもおもふこころは
| akikaze wa fukazu mo aranamu ominaeshi shiru mo shiranu mo omou kokoro wa | Even should the autumn breeze Fail to blow, O, maidenflower, still Those who know you and know you not, Would hold you in their hearts… |
Taira no Yasū
5
Right (Win)
をみなへしおひたるのべにふきかかるあきののかぜにみをやそへまし
| ominaeshi oitaru nobe ni fukikakaru aki no nokaze ni mi o ya soemashi | Maidenflowers Growing in the meadows Brushed by the blowing Autumn wind o’er the fields— O, how I wish it trailed over me, too… |
Tomo no Tadanori
(or in some texts Toshizane)
6
A poem on the moon, when she presented a hundred poem sequence.
ながめわびぬあきよりほかのやどもがな野にも山にも月やすむらん
| nagame wabinu aki yori hoka no yado mogana no ni mo yama ni mo tsuki ya sumuran | Suffering and sorrowing— Other than in autumn Might I find lodging? Though Above the fields and mountains, too, The moon shines so clear…[1] |
Princess Shokushi

[1] An allusive variation on KKS XVIII: 947.