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Tōin senzai awase 06

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

Yasuakira shinnō tachihaki no jin uta’awase 03

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

SKKS IV: 380

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

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

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