Left (Win).
松が根をいそべの浪のうつたえにあらはれぬべき袖の上かな
| matsu ga ne o isobe no nami no utsutae ni arawarenubeki sode no ue kana |
The pine trees’ roots By stony shore bound waves Are struck, and Must stand revealed Upon my sleeves. |
103
Right
初雁のとわたる風のたよりにもあらぬ思ひを誰につたへん
| hatsukari no towataru kaze no tayori ni mo aranu omoi o tare ni tsutaen |
The first, returning goose, Borne before the gate of heaven, of the unseen wind Is no harbinger; Just so the fires of my love: To whom should I reveal them? |
104
Left.
秋風にそよぐ田の面のいねがてにまつ明方の初雁の聲
| aki kaze ni soyogu ta no mo no ine ga te ni matsu akekata no hatsukari no koe |
The autumn wind Rustles o’er the fields Of rice; sleepless I await the dawn’s First goose-call. |
65
Right (Win)
生駒山あらしも秋の色に吹手染の糸のよるぞかなしき
| ikoma yama arashi mo aki no iro ni fuku tezome no ito no yoru zo kanashiki |
Upon Ikoma Mountain The storm wind with autumn’s longing Hues is gusting; Hand-dyed thread Twining in the night is sad, indeed. |
66
Left (Tie).
里の海人のしほやき衣たちわかれなれしもしらぬ春の雁がね
| sato no ama no shioyaki koromo tachiwakare nareshi mo shiranu haru no kari ga ne |
A village of sea-folk In their garb from the salt kilns Parted and departing Known and yet unknown The springtime cries of geese. |
11
Right
花の色にひとはるまけよ歸雁今年こしぢの空だのめして
| hana no iro ni hito haru makeyo kaeru kari kotoshi koshiji no sora danomeshite |
To the blossoms’ hues This single spring stay bound, O homeward-heading geese, This year let the northern folk Ask questions of the empty sky. |
12
At around the time when my visits to Lady Koichijōemon became sporadic, I went to visit her by ox-cart, with my ox-boy, Akimaro, as an outcrier; at her estate, the lady:
雲居にて鳴きわたりなるかりがねは秋こし路や思ひいづらん
| kumowi nite nakiwatarinaru kari ga ne Fa aki kosi miti ya omoFi iduran |
Above the clouds, Known to squawk is The gander: Now autumn longings have come, the way Here has he recalled? |
My reply:
うぐひすの古巣といはば雁がねのかへるつらにや思ひなさまし
| uguFisu no Furusu to iFaba kari ga ne no kaFeru tura ni ya omoFinasamasi |
A warbler’s Accustomed nest, do you say? Of a goose calling From his homeward flight I would have you think! |
Long ago, a man went wandering in the province of Musashi. And, in that province lived a certain lady. Her father thought to match her with a common man, but for her mother, only a man of the highest rank would do. Her father was a man of low rank, but her mother was of the Fujiwara family. Thus it was that she wanted a man of high rank for her daughter. So, she composed a poem and sent it to the man. They lived in the district of Iruma on the Miyoshino estate.
みよし野のたのむの雁もひたふるに君がゝたにぞよると鳴くなる
| miyosino no tanomu no kari mo FitaFuru ni kimi ga kata ni zo yoru to naku naru |
In fair Yoshino, Even the geese upon the rice fields, Alone For you do Yearn and cry. |
The man replied:
わが方によると鳴くなるみよし野のたのむの雁をいつか忘れん
| wa ga kata ni yoru to naku naru miyosino no tanomu no kari wo ituka wasuren |
For me Yearning and crying In fair Yoshino The geese upon the rice fields: Can I ever forget them? |
In the provinces they have still not ceased to do such things.
Departing Geese
たが方に行ともしらずみ吉野の田面の雁の春のわかれは
| ta ga kata ni yuku tomo shirazu miyoshino no tanomo no kari no haru no wakare wa |
To whom They go I know not: In fair Yoshino The geese upon the rice fields, Departing with the springtime. |
美保の浦を月とともにや出ぬらん隠岐の外山に更くる雁がね
| miho no ura o tsuki totomo ni ya idenuran oki no toyama ni fukuru kari ga ne |
Above Miho Bay, The moon, and with it I wonder, do arise From Oki’s nearby mountains Goose cries at dusk? |
とへかしな雲の上より來し雁の獨友なき浦に泣く音を
| toekashina kumo no ue yori koshi kari no hitori tomo naki ura ni naku ne o |
O, how he would have a visit! From above the clouds Has come a goose, Alone and friendless, Crying by the bay. |
神無月時雨飛び分行く雁のつばさ吹干す峰の木枯
| kaminazuki shigure tobiwake yuku kari no tsubasa fukihosu mine no kogarashi |
In the Godless Month, it Drizzles upon the passing Geese; Wings blown dry by The biting wind atop the peaks. |