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SIS XI: 622

From the Poetry Match held during the reign of the Tenryaku Emperor.

しのぶれど色にいでにけりわが恋は物や思ふと人のとふまで

sinoburedo
iro ni idenikeri
wa ga koFi Fa
mono ya omoFu to
Fito no toFu made
I kept it secret, yet
Passion will reveal itself!
So of my love,
‘What is it troubles you so?’
Do folk enquire…

Taira no Kanemori

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

GSS III: 102

Prince Motoyoshi lived with the daughter of Lord Kanemori, but she was summoned by the Cloistered Emperor and, while she was in service to him, he was unable to meet her, so at the beginning of the year in springtime, he took a branch of cherry blossom, and left it thrust through the doorway of her chamber.

花のいろはむかしながらにみし人の心のみこそうつろひにけれ

Fana no iro Fa
mukasi nagara ni
misi Fito no
kokoro nomi koso
uturoFinikere
The hues of this blossom are
Just as long ago, when
She I saw them with has
Her heart, indeed,
Moved elsewhere!

Prince Motoyoshi

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

KKS XVIII: 962

During the reign of the Tamura Emperor, when he was confined to Suma in the province of Tsu for certain reasons, he sent this to someone in the capital.

わくらばにとふ人あらばすまの浦にもしほたれつつわぶとこたへよ

wakuraba ni
toFu Fito araba
suma no ura ni
mosiFo taretutu
wabu to kotaFeyo
If of me
Folk should come enquiring, then as
On the beach at Suma
The seaweed ever drips,
I suffer—answer that!

Ariwara no Yukihira

Yōzei-in uta’awase (Engi jūsan-nen kugatsu kokonoka) 22

Left

をしめどもとまらぬ秋は常盤山もみぢはてぬとみてもゆるさじ

oshimedomo
tomaranu aki wa
tokiwayama
momiji hatenu to
mite mo yurusaji
I regret it, yet
Autumn lingers not
Upon the evergreen mountains
The scarlet leaves have yet to end,
I see and would not let them go.

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Right

としごとにとまらぬ秋とおもひなばてもろき人もをしまざらまし

toshigoto ni
tomaranu aki to
omoinaba
temoroki hito mo
oshimazaramashi
If, that every single year
Autumn lingers not,
I did not think, then
Tear-filled folk
I would not have regret it.

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Yōzei-in uta’awase (Engi jūsan-nen kugatsu kokonoka) 03

Left

なが月はこしひよりこそをしまるれいまはかぎりの秋とおもへば

nagatsuki wa
koshi hi yori koso
oshimaru
ima wa kagiri no
aki to omoeba
The longest month’s[i]
Days have passed, indeed, so
How I regret the thought that
Now the bounds of
Autumn have been reached…

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Right (Win)

とふ人もなきものゆゑにあぢきなくいはんまもなくをしき秋かな

tou hito mo
naki mono yue ni
ajikinaku
iwan ma mo naku
oshiki aki kana
Visiting folk are
There none, so
In my tedium,
Needless to say,
How I regret the autumn!

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[i] Nagatsuki 長月 (‘longest month’) was an alternate name for the Ninth Month of the lunar calendar, which was the final month of the season of autumn.

Yōzei-in uta’awase (Engi jūsan-nen kugatsu kokonoka) 02

Left (Win)

あだなりと人やみるらん年毎にとまらぬあきををしむこころは

ada nari to
hito ya miruran
toshigoto ni
tomaranu aki o
oshimu kokoro wa
Deceitful does it
Appear to her?
Every single year
When autumn lingers not, that
My heart is filled with regret…

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Right

よそ人も秋はをしきを浅茅生のむべもこゑごゑ鹿やなくらん

yosobito mo
aki wa oshiki o
asajū no
mube mo koegoe
shika ya nakuran
Does even a stranger
Feel regret in autumn, when
From among the cogon grass,
Indeed, the belling of
The stags seems to sound?

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