In the conception of reminiscence.
をしなべて日よしのかげはくもらぬになみだあやしき昨日けふかな
oshinabete
On every spot throughout the world
Former Abbot Jien
In the conception of reminiscence.
わがたのむなゝのやしろのゆふだすきかけてもむつの道にかへすな
wa ga tanomu
I make my plea
Former Abbot Jien
For a picture of Oshio Mountain, on a screen in the Saisho Hall of the Four Heavenly Kings.
をしほ山神のしるしを松の葉にちぎりしいろはかへる物かは
oshio yama
Oshio Mountain,
Former Abbot Jien
From the Minase 15 Love Poem Poetry Competition.
野邊のつゆはいろもなくてやこぼれつるそでよりすぐるおぎのうは風
nobe no tsuyu wa
Do the dewdrops in the fields
Former Abbot Jien
On the impermanence of things.
きのふみし人はいかにとおどろけどなを長よの夢にぞ有ける
kinô mishi
‘I met him but yesterday, so
Former Archbishop Jien
On the impermanence of things.
みな人のしりがほにしてしらぬかなかならずしぬるならひありとは
mina hito no
Everyone
Former Archbishop Jien
In reply.
おもひいづるおりたくしばときくからにたぐひしられぬゆふけぶりかな
omoiizuru
Remembering her
Former Archbishop Jien
In the Tenth Month, when He was in Minase, He sent to Former Archbishop Jien saying He had been ‘soaked by the showers’ or some such; in the Godless Month of the following year, among a great number of undistinguished poems, He sent this.
おもひいづるおりたくしばのゆふけぶりむせぶもうれし忘がたみに
omoiizuru
Remembering her,
The Senior Retired Emperor [Gotoba]
When a fellow monk had passed away, he composed this in remembrance of him.
ふるさとをこふる涙やひとりゆくともなき山のみちしばのつゆ
furusato o
For his home,
Former Archbishop Jien
From an occasion when men were composing Chinese poems and converting them into Japanese; on ‘travelling a mountain road in autumn’:
み山ぢやいつより秋の色ならん見ざりし雲のゆふぐれのそら
miyamaji ya
Here in the mountain’s heart
Former Archbishop Jien (1155 – 1225)
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