かみまつるやどの卯の花白妙のみてぐらかとぞあやまたれける
| kami maturu yado no unoFana sirotaFe no mitegura ka to zo ayamatarekeru | Sacred to the Gods, A dwelling’s deutzia, for White as mulberry cloth, Sacred streamers might Be mistaken! |
Tsurayuki
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SIS II: 91
For a folding screen with images of the moon in every month, during the reign of the Engi emperor.
神まつる卯月にさける卯の花はしろくもきねがしらげたるかな
| kami maturu uduki ni sakeru unoFana Fa siroku mo kine ga siragetaru kana | Sacred to the Gods, The Fourth Month is when bloom Deutzia, So white that maidens from the shrine Must have whitened them! |
Mitsune
Kinkai wakashū 654
Composed on the conception of the essential nature of things.
神といひ仏といふも世中の人の心のほかのものかは
| kami to ii hotoke to iu mo yo no naka no hito no kokoro no hoka no mono ka wa | What we call God, and What we call Buddha, too— In this mundane world ‘Tis in the human heart that They are and nowhere else, aren’t they? |
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Kinkai wakashū 649
Kinkai wakashū 646
Composed on Shintō in relation to ancient estates.
磯のかみふるきみやこは神さびてたたるにしあれや人もかよはぬ
| iso no kami furuki miyako wa kami sabite tatarunishi are ya hito mo kayowanu | Here at Isonokami The ancient capital was Touched by the divine: Was it cursed, perhaps, so Folk no longer travel there?[i] |
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[i] See: Composed at the Isonokami temple in Nara on hearing the cuckoo sing. いその神ふるき宮この郭公聲ばかりこそむかしなりけれ isonokami / furuki miyako no / hototogisu / koe bakari koso / mukashi narikere ‘Here at Isonokami / In the ancient capital / The cuckoo’s / Call alone / Is as of old.’ Dharma Master Sosei (Kokinshū III: 144)
