When Spring Arrives in the Old Year 旧年立春
年のうちに春はたちぬとうちつけに雪げの雲を霞とぞみる
| toshi no uchi ni haru wa tachinu to uchitsuke ni yukige no kumo o kasumi to zo miru | Within the old year Spring has come to call and Instantly The snow-scented clouds Seem haze before my eyes! |
Daishin
A poem from a poetry competition held by Her Majesty, the Empress, during the Kanpyō period.
春霞色のちぐさに見えつるはたなびく山の花のかげかも
| Farugasumi iro no tigusa ni mieturu Fa tanabiku yama no Fana no kage kamo | The haze of spring has Countless hues It does appear; Streaming across the mountains with The blossoms’ glow. |
Fujiwara no Okikaze
Composed as a Spring poem.
三輪山をしかも隠すか春霞人に知られぬはなやさくらむ
| miwayama wo sikamo kakusu ka Farugasumi Fito ni sirarenu Fana ya sakuramu | Miwa Mountain Will you thus conceal, O, haze of spring? Might, unknown to all, Blossoms be blooming there? |
Tsurayuki
Composed on plucked cherry blossom.
誰しかも尋めておりつる春霞立かくす覧山のさくらを
| tare sika mo tomete orituru Farugasumi tatikakusuramu yama no sakura wo | Who can it be Has sought and plucked, In the haze of spring Concealed upon The mountains, these cherries? |
Tsurayuki
Topic unknown.
山ざくらわがみにくればはるがすみ峰にもおにもたちかくしつつ
| yamazakura wa ga mi ni kureba Farugasumi mine ni mo oni mo tachikakusitutu | When mountain cherries Have I come to see, The haze of spring, Around the peaks, and foothills, too, Ever does arise to hide them… |
Anonymous
Left
けふも猶雪はふりつつ春霞たてるやいづこ若菜つみてむ
| kyō mo nao yuki wa furitsutsu harugasumi tateru ya izuko wakana tsumitemu |
Still yet, today Is the snow falling; O, spring haze Where do you arise? For I would go and pluck fresh herbs! |
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In no hyakushu, shodo, Eighth Month Shōji 2 [September 1200]
Right
朝氷たがため分て此川のむかへの野べに若菜つむらん
| asagōri ta ga tame wakete kono kawa no mukae no nobe ni wakana tsumuran |
This film of morning ice: For who’s sake do I break it? On this river’s Yonder side within the fields Would I pluck fresh herbs… |
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Naidaijinke hyakushu, Ninth Month Kenpō 3 [October 1215]
Composed as a poem on haze.
見渡せばそこと印の杉もなし霞のうちや三輪の山本
| miwataseba soko to sirusi no sugi mo nasi kasumi no uti ya miwa no yamamoto |
When I gaze across As sentinels there No cedars stand; Are you within the haze, O, Miwa Mountain’s foot? |
Captain of the Middle Palace Guards, Left Division, [Fujiwara no] Takafusa
左兵衛督隆房
Sent to the residence of the late Principal Handmaid, at the beginning, when he was still Crown Prince.
ほのかにも知らせてしがな春霞かすみのうちに思ふ心を
| Fonoka ni mo sirasetesi gana Faru kasumi kasumi no uti ni omoFu kokoro wo |
Secretly I would have you know, With the mists of spring Among the haze are My thoughts of you. |
Former Emperor Gosuzaku
後朱雀院
稲妻は陽炎ばかりありしとき秋の田のみは人知りにけり
| inaduma Fa kageroFu bakari arisi toki aki no ta nomi Fa Fito sirinikeri |
When lightning Simply with the haze Did join, The autumn fields alone Were in his thoughts… |
A poem composed after the cremation of Cloistered Retired Emperor En’yū at Murasakino, when recalling how His Majesty had travelled there for the Day of the Rat the year before.
紫野雲のかけても思ひきや春の霞になして見むとは
| murasaki no kumo no kaketemo omoFiki ya Faru no kasumi ni nasite mimu to Fa |
At Murasakino Clouds covering all Did I recall? The haze of spring Have they become when I see them now… |
Major Captain of the Left [Fujiwara no] Asamitsu
左大将[藤原]朝光