稀にきて稀にやどかる人もあらじ哀とおもへ庭のまつ風
| mare ni kite mare ni yado karu hito mo araji aware to omoe niwa no matsukaze | Even rarely coming, and Rarely borrowing my hut— There’s no such man, it seems, so Pity me, Pinewinds through my garden! |
590
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Kinkai wakashū 589
Composed on a large number of travellers being at mountain retreat surrounded by pine trees.
まれにきて聞くだにかなし山がつの苔のいほりの庭の松風
| mare ni kite kiku dani kanashi yamagatsu no koke no iori no niwa no matsukaze | Rarely do I come, but Even hearing it is so sad— In a woodcutter’s Mossy hut, The pinewinds through the garden.[i] |
589
[i] See: After the death of Sada’ie’s mother, around autumn time he was staying at a temple near her grave and composed this. まれにくる夜はもかなしき松風をたえずやこけのしたにきくらん mare ni kuru / yo wa mo kanashiki / matsu kaze o / taezu ya koke no / shita ni kikuran ‘Rarely did I come / At nights now I sorrowfully / Pine trees in the wind / Unceasingly beneath the moss / I wonder will you hear it?’ Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari (Shinkokinshū VIII: 796)
MYS VIII: 1441
Ōmi no miyasudokoro uta’awase 07
Garden Cherry
あさごとに我がはくやどのにはざくらはなちるほどはてもふれでみむ
| asa goto ni wa ga haku yado no niwazakura hana chiru hodo wa te mo furede mimu | Every single morning Around my house I could sweep Garden cherry Blossoms, scattered I’ll not touch them, but gaze on them, instead! |
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[i] This poem is included in Shūishū (I: 61) as an anonymous poem with the headnote ‘Among the poems from a poetry match held by the Fujitsubo Junior Consort during the reign of the Engi Emperor’, and also in Kokin rokujō (4234) with the headnote ‘Garden Cherry’.
Kinkai wakashū 475
Kinkai wakashū 398
The end of the year[i]
塵をだにすゑじとや思ふ行く年の跡なき庭をはらふ松風
| chiri o dani sueji to ya omou yuku toshi no ato naki niwa o harau matsukaze | Will the dust Not even linger, I wonder; The departing year Leaves no footprints in my garden Swept by the wind from off the pines. |
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