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SZS XVI: 1043

In the same reign, when His Majesty’s Gentlemen were drawing topic by lot and presenting poems, he drew ‘fishing boats’ and composed this.

いはおろすかたこそなけれいせの海のしほせにかかるあまのつり舟

iFa orosu
kata koso nakere
ise no umi no
siFose ni kakaru
ama no turibune
To drop their stones
Is there no place at all,
At the sea off Ise
Caught by the rushing tides are
The seafolk’s fishing boats…

Supernumerary Middle Counsellor Toshitada

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

SZS I: 3

Composed on the conception of the beginning of spring, when she presented a hundred poem sequence.

雪ふかきいはのかけみち跡たゆるよしののさとも春はきにけり

yuki Fukaki
iFa no kakemiti
ato tayuru
yosino no sato mo
Faru Fa kinikeri
Where snow lay deep
Across the rocks, upon the path of boards,
Footprints are fading—
At the Yoshino estate
Spring has arrived!

Taikenmon’in no Horikawa

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
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KYS II: 154

Composed on waiting for the moon by the water at Lord Kinzane’s residence.

夏の夜の月待つ程の手ずさみに岩もる清水いく結びしつ

natsu no yo no
tuki matu Fodo no
tezusami ni
iFa moru simidu
iku musubisitu
On a summer night,
Waiting for the moon,
My hands keep busy by
Through the pure water dripping from the rocks
Running time and time again.

Fujiwara no Mototoshi

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
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Horikawa-in enjo awase 1

This match took place when, hearing that his courtiers were composing poetry, His Majesty ordered them to compose love poems to the ladies in attendance.

おもひあまりいかでもらさんおく山の岩かきこむる谷の下みづ

omoi’amari
ikade morasan
okuyama no
iwa kakikomuru
tani no shitamizu
My passion’s full, so
How should it o’erflow?
Deep within the mountains
Hemmed in by crags are
The waters of the valley floor…

Major Counsellor Kinzane
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いかなれば音にのみきく山川の浅きにしもはこころよすらん

ika nareba
oto ni nomi kiku
yamakawa no
asaki ni shimo wa
kokoro yosuran
For some reason,
I simply hear the sound
Of a mountain stream;
Into the shallows, indeed, has
Your heart been swept, it seems!

[Nakako,] The Suō Handmaid
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