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Teiji-in uta’awase 08

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さくらばないかでかひとのをりてみぬのちこそまさるいろもいでこめ

sakurabana
ikadeka hito no
orite minu
nochi koso masaru
iro mo idekome
O, cherry blossom!
Why would people
Pick you—can not they see that
‘Tis later that your best
Hues will emerge?

Mitsune

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Right

うたたねのゆめにやあるらむさくらばなはかなくみてぞやみぬべらなる

utatane no
yume ni ya aruramu
sakurabana
hakanaku mite zo
yaminuberanaru
Dozing fitfully
In my dreams might there be
Cherry blossom?
A brief glimpse, that
Can be held right here…

Mitsune

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Hon’in sadaijin-ke uta’awase 04

Maidenflowers

Left

なびくとや人はみるらんをみなへしおもふかたにぞかぜもふきける

nabiku to ya
hito wa miruran
ominaeshi
omou kata ni zo
kaze mo fukikeru
‘Are they trailing?’
Folk wonder at the sight of
The maidenflowers, and
As they thought
The wind, too, was blowing…

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Right

おほかたののべなるよりはをみなへしねやのつまにてみるはまされり

ōkata no
nobe naru yori wa
ominaeshi
neya no tsuma nite
miru wa masareri
So wide are
The plains, but I’d rather
A maidenflower—
My wife in the bedchamber:
Seeing her is better far!

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GSS I: 38

He had paid a visit to the house of an acquaintance where there was a plum tree. ‘When it blooms, I will certainly invite you to come,’ he was told, but when no letter arrived…

梅花今は盛りになりぬらんたのめし人のをとづれもせぬ

mume no Fana
ima Fa sakarini
narinuran
tanomesi Fito no
wotodure mo senu
The plum blossom
Is now profusely
Blooming, it seems, but
From the man I trusted
Comes no note, at all…

The Suzakuin Prince and Minister for War [Atsukata/Atsumoto]

Yamato monogatari 45

A further poem:

時雨のみふる山里の木の下はをる人からやもり過ぬらん

shigure nomi
furu yamazato no
ko no shita wa
oru hito kara ya
morisuginuran
Showers simply
Fall upon a mountain retreat
Beneath the trees;
Has someone gone astray there
To make them seem so endlessly thick?

When he received these, His Majesty was not of a mind to respond. I have heard that he read the poems then showed them to someone, saying, `What is this about?I don’t understand!’, so it is said they had no effect.

Sahyōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase 20

Left (Tie)

われやうき人をこひぢになりぬればあはぬとだえに身をぞなしつる

ware ya uki
hito o koiji ni
narinureba
awanu todae ni
mi o zo nashitsuru
I, toward a heartless
Lady upon the paths of love
Did tread, but
As a broken bridge, no meeting
Has befallen me!

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Right

ひたすらにわすれもぞするわすれぐさみずやあらましこひはしぬとも

hitasura ni
wasure mo zo suru
wasuregusa
mizu ya aramashi
koi wa shinu tomo
So completely
Am I forgotten by that
Forgetful day-lily—
She will not see me, it seems,
Though I die of love for her.

Mitsune
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Sahyōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase 15

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おとはやまおとにききつつあふさかのせきのこなたにひとをまつかな

otowayama
oto ni kikitsutsu
ausaka no
seki no konata ni
hito o matsu kana
As wing-beats in the mountains
Do I hear tell:
That on Meeting Hill
Barrier’s inner side
Someone does await me!

Motokata
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Right

そのはらやふせやにおふるははきぎのありとてゆけどあはぬきみかな

sonohara ya
fuseya ni ouru
hahakigi no
ari tote yukedo
awanu kimi kana
At Sonohara
By the rest-stop grows
A sacred tree, they say;
I catch a glimpse, yet
Cannot meet with you!

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Sahyōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase 14

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こひわびぬかなしきこともなぐさめむいづれなぐさのはまべなるらむ

koiwabinu
kanashiki koto mo
nagusamemu
izure nagusa no
hamabe naruramu
Suffering the pain of love and
Sadness, too,
I would be consoled, so
Where might Nagusa
Beach lie, I wonder?

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Right

みぬ人のこひしきやなぞおぼつかなたれとかしらむゆめにみゆとも

minu hito no
koishiki ya nazo
obotsukana
tare to ka shiramu
yume ni miyutomo
An unseen lady
Do I love, but why?
How strange it is—
Is there any might know,
Though I glimpse her in my dreams…

Mitsune
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Sahyōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase 13

Left (Tie)

おとぎきにあやなく人をこひそめてそれとだにみぬことのわびしさ

otogiki ni
ayanaku hito o
koisomete
sore to dani minu
koto no wabishisa
By repute
Pointlessly, a lady
Have I begun to love,
Without even seeing her,
That is truly pitiable!

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Right

やまびこのおとにのみきくきみなればわれよりさきにとふ人もなし

yamabiko no
oto ni nomi kiku
kimi nareba
ware yori saki ni
tou hito mo nashi
As a mountain spirit
Word is all I hear
Of you, so
Before me
Not a man will visit you!

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