Composed when I had instructed various people to compose on ‘In the autumn fields / Drop whitened dewdrops: / Can they be jewels’.[i]
ささがにの玉ぬくいとのををよわみ風にみだれて露ぞこぼるる
sasagani no tama nuku ito no o o yowami kaze ni midarete tsuyu zo koboruru A tiny crab, the spider
[i] A reference to: Composed at a poetry competition at Prince Koresada’s house. 秋ののにおくしらつゆは玉なれやつらぬきかくるくものいとすぢ aki no no ni / oku shiratsuyu wa / tama nare ya / tsuranukikakuru / kumo no itosuji ‘In the autumn fields / Drop whitened dewdrops: / Can they be jewels, / Pierced through and strung / On spider webs?’ Fun’ya no Asayasu (KKS IV: 225 ). Sanetomo has used the initial part of the Kokinshū poem as the topic for composition.
Composed on a plant.
紫 糸乎曽吾搓 足檜之 山橘乎 将貫跡念而
murasaki no Violet threads
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When a large number of people had gone to Daikakuji and were composing on the old waterfall.
たきの糸はたえてひさしく成りぬれど名こそ流れて猶きこえけれ
taki no ito Fa The cataract’s threads
Kintō, Captain of the Outer Palace Guards, Right Division
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Winter.
たつた山みねのしぐれの糸よわみぬけどみだるるよもの紅葉葉
tatsutayama Upon Mount Tatsuta
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On willows in the rain.
あさみどりそめてかけたる青柳のいとに玉ぬく春雨ぞふる
asamidori somete kaketaru aoyagi no ito ni tama nuku harusame zo furu Pale green
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On willows in the rain.
青柳のいとよりつたふ白露を玉とみるまで春雨ぞふる
aoyagi no ito yori tsutau shiratsuyu o tama to miru made harusame zo furu The pale green willow
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As a poem on willows.
青柳のいともてぬける白露の玉こきちらす春の山かぜ
aoyagi no ito mo tenukeru shiratsuyu no tama kokichirasu haru no yamakaze Pale green willow
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As a poem on willows.
春くれば猶色まさる山しろのときはの杜の青柳のいと
haru kureba nao iro masaru yamashiro no tokiwa no mori no aoyagi no ito Spring has come, and
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Left (Tie)
ふるさとにかすみとびわけゆくかりはたびのそらにやはるをすぐらむ
furusato ni kasumi tobiwake yuku kari wa tabi no sora ni ya haru o suguramu Above an ancient estate
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Right
ちるはなをぬきしとめねばあをやぎのいとはよるともかひやなからむ
chiru hana o nukishi tomeneba aoyagi no ito wa yoru tomo kai ya nakaramu The scattered blossom
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‘“Sewn but not halted”—it really does seem so.’
Topic unknown.
いづ方によるとかは見む青柳のいと定めなき人の心を
idukata ni Where is it that
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'Simply moving and elegant'
