今はとて車かけてし庭なれば匂ふ草葉も生ひしけりけり
| ima Fa tote kuruma kaketesi niFa nareba nioFu kusaba mo oFi sigerikeri |
Now, it is, they say, that Carriages having traversed The grounds, that Fragrant grassy leaves Grow in great profusion. |
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Kokin rokujo V: 3331
庭に立つ麻布小衾今宵だに妻よしこせぬ麻ち小衾
| niFa ni tatu asade kobusuma koyoFi dani tuma yosikosenu asati kobusuma |
Standing in the grounds, Hemp, turned meagre bedding, but Even on this night My wife will not draw near My hempen bedding! |
Eikyū hyakushu 343
Sleet
あめのしたふるとはすれどはかなきは庭にたまらぬみぞれなりけり
| ame no shita furu to wa suredo hakanaki wa niwa ni tamaranu mizore narikeri | Beneath the rain, It falls, yet Even briefly Upon the grounds settles not – The sleet. |
Daishin
Eikyū hyakushu 359
Falling Leaves
紅葉ばを夜半の嵐のしく庭は物わすれせで朝きよめすな
| momijiba o yowa no arashi no shiku niwa wa monowasuresede asa kiyomesu na | Scarlet leaves By the midnight storm Are spread around the grounds: O, keep them in your mind, and Clear them not this morning! |
Minamoto no Nakazane
源仲実
MYS XIX: 4172
In Kanpyō-Shōhō 2 [750], on the 24th day of the Third Month, it would be near to the beginning of summer in the Fourth Month, so he composed these two poems when, on the evening of the 23rd day, he suddenly thought of a cuckoo calling at dawn.
霍公鳥来鳴き響めば草取らむ花橘を宿には植ゑずて
| pototogisu kinaki toyomeba kusa toramu panatatibana wo yado ni wa uwezute |
When the cuckoo Arrives, his resounding song Sends me gathering grasses, For orange blossom Has not been planted in my grounds… |
Ōtomo no Yakamochi