When he had finally, after great effort, received a letter from a woman who would give him no reply.
跡みれば心なぐさのはまちどり今は声こそきかまほしけれ
| ato mireba kokoro nagusa no Famatidori ima Fa kowe koso kikamaFosikere | Seeing these tracks Does ease my heart Plover on the beach, but Now, it is your voice, indeed, That I long to hear more!’ |
Anonymous
He composed this, thinking of when his father Lord Yoshifumi had was in Tamazushima and composed:
和歌の浦に名をとどめけるゆゑあらば道しるべせよ玉津島姫
waka no ura ni / na o todomekeru / yue araba / michishirube seyo / tamazushima-hime
‘Upon the Bay of Waka / To leave my name— / If only there was a way, then / I would have you guide me, / O Princess of Tamazushima!’
尋行く和歌のうら路のはま千鳥跡ある方に道しるべせよ
| tazuneyuku waka no uraji no hamachidori ato aru kata ni michishirube seyo | Coming to pay a visit To the ways of Waka Bay, O, plovers on the beach, How to follow in your footsteps I would have you guide me! |
Lord Ki no Yoshito
紀淑氏朝臣
From the Hundred Poem Sequences presented for former Emperor Horikawa.
うらかぜに吹上のはまの浜千鳥浪たちくらし夜半になくなり
| urakaze ni fukiage no hama no hamachidori nami tachikurashi yowa ni naku nari | Beach breezes Blow up Fukiage shore, where The plovers on the beach As the waves break in the darkness, Cry out with midnight. |
Kii, from the Residence of Imperial Princess Sukeko
Topic unknown.
かげろふに見しばかりにやはま千どり行衛もしらぬ恋にまどはん
| kagerFu ni misi bakari ni ya Famatidori yukuwe mo siranu koFi ni madoFan | Is it that as if through haze Simply did I see her? As a plover on the beach, Bound I know not where, Am I lost in love. |
Lord Hitoshi
Topic unknown.
あふことはいつとなぎさのはま千どり浪のたちゐにねをのみぞなく
| aFu koto Fa itu to nagisa no Famatidori nami no tachi’wi ni ne wo nomi zo naku | Our meeting— When will it be? On the seashore The plovers on the beach Amid the rising waves Simply let out sobbing cries! |
Middle Counsellor Masasada
