His Majesty’s Reply:
こゝのへにあらで八重さく山吹の言はぬ色をばしる人もなし
| kokonoFe ni arade yaFe saku yamabuki no iFanu iro wo ba siru Fito mo nasi |
Within nine folds ’Tis not, so my eightfold blooming Yellow globeflower’s Wordless hues Are unknown to all. |
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Sanekata Shū 10
When I was at the Horikawa Palace, and Lady Koma no Myōbu was behind a folding screen, a globeflower was tossed over it, and I realised that His Majesty was there, too.
やへながらいろもかはらぬ山吹のこゝのへになど咲かずなりにし
| yaFe nagara iro mo kaFaranu yamabuki no kokonoFe ni nado sakazu narinisi |
Eightfold, Your hues remain unchanged: O, globeflower, But within nine folds Have you bloomless become…? |
Entō Onhyakushu 20
物思ふに過る月日は知らねども春や暮れぬる岸の山吹
| mono’omou ni suguru tsuki hi wa shiranedomo haru ya kurenuru kishi no yamabuki |
In gloomy thought I’ve passed the days and months All unknowing, yet Has spring ended, With the globeflowers blooming on the shore? |
SKKS II: 159
When he presented a hundred-poem sequence.
こまとめてなを水かはんやまぶきの花のつゆそふ井での玉河
| koma tomete nao mizu kawan yamabuki no hana no tsuyu sou ide no tamagawa |
I halt my mount And once again draw water; The globeflower Blossoms dew falls to Ide’s Tama River. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
藤原俊成
KKS II: 124
SKKS II: 158
When he presented a hundred-poem sequence.
よしのがはきしの山ぶきさきにけりみねのさくらはちりはてぬらん
| yoshinogawa kishi no yamabuki sakinikeri mine no sakura wa chirihatenuran |
By the river Yoshino The globeflowers on the bank Have come into bloom; On the peak the cherries Have likely all completely fallen. |
Fujiwara no Ietaka
藤原家隆
SZS II: 117
Composed on globeflowers, when he presented a hundred-poem sequence.
山吹の花のつまとはきかねども移ろふなべになく蛙かな
| yamabuki no Fana no tuma to Fa kikanedomo uturoFu nabe ni naku kaFadu kana |
The globeflower Blossoms are your wife? Of that I had not heard, yet With their fading hues Croaks a frog! |
Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
藤原清輔
GSIS XVI: 964
Hearing that the same person had come from somewhere, she attached this to one of the same flowers.
味氣なく思ひこそやれつれづれと一人やゐでの山吹の花
| adikinaku omoFi koso yare turedure to Fitori ya wide no yamabuki no Fana |
Unpleasant Thoughts fill my head: In boredom All alone (are you?) with an Ide Globeflower’s blooms. |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部
GSIS XVI: 963
When someone from whom she had heard nothing for a long time, sent her a globeflower, saying, ‘Forgive me for not writing for so long.’
とへとしも思はぬ八重の山吹を許すといはゞ折にこむとや
| toFe to si mo omoFanu yaFe no yamabuki wo yurusu to iFaba wori ni komu to ya |
Many blooms (Come see me!) I did not think there were upon the double-blossomed Globeflower; and If I did agree, I wonder if you’d come and pluck it? |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部