行く春のかたみとおもふにあまつ空有明の月は影もたえにき
| yuku haru no katami to omou ni ama tsu sora ariake no tsuki wa kage mo taeniki | Of departing spring A keepsake did I think it, yet In the heavenly skies The dawntime moon’s Shape, too, has vanished. |
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Kinkai wakashū 112
SIS IV: 220
On seeing the remaining scarlet leaves scattering.
| karanisiki eda ni Fitomura nokoreru Fa aki no katami wo tatanu narikeri | Cathay brocade In a single bunch upon the branch Remains: Autumn’s keepsake Is being rent away. |
Archbishop Henjō
SKKS VIII: 789
Composed on the wind bringing fond thoughts of the past, in the autumn after his father, Hidemune, had passed away.
露をだに今は形見の藤ごろもあだにも袖を吹く嵐かな
| tsuyu o dani ima wa katami no fujigoromo ada ni mo sode o fuku arashi kana | Even the dewfall, which Now is a keepsake upon My mourning robes is Transient, so from my sleeves ‘Tis blown by the storming wind! |
Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
SCSS XIII: 830
When the Gokyōgoku Regent ordered her to produce a hundred poem sequence.
雲となり雨となりても身にそはばむなしき空をかたみとやみん
| kumo to nari ame to narite mo mi ni sowaba munashiki sora o katami to ya min | Even should you become a cloud, and Then become raindrops Falling on my flesh, then Would the vacant skies I see as a keepsake, perhaps? |
Kojijū
SIS III: 214
In a reply to a letter sent by Shigeyuki at the end of autumn.
くれて行くあきのかたみに置く物はわがもとゆひの霜にぞ有りける
| kureteyuku aki no katami ni woku mono Fa wa ga motoyuFi no simo ni zo arikeru | Heading into twilight Autumn for a keepsake Falling upon My hair-tie is Frost! |
Taira no Kanemori
SKKS XV: 1403
Topic uknown.
うれしくはわするるひともありなましつらきぞながきかたみなりける
| ureshiku wa wasururu hito mo arinamashi tsuraki zo nagaki katami narikeru | Happiness will Be forgotten by folk I’m sure, but Cold cruelty an enduring Keepsake will be. |
Fukayabu
Jidai fudō uta’awase 44
Round Forty-Four
Left
むかしせしわがかねごとのかなしきはいかにちぎりしなごりなるらん
| mukashi seshi wa ga kanegoto no kanashiki wa ika ni chigirishi nagorinaruran | Long ago did I promise, but Might the sadness Of how I did once vow Be my only keepsake? |
87[i]
Right
かたみとてみればなみだのふかみ草なになかなかのにほひなるらむ
| katami tote mireba namida no fukamigusa nani nakanaka no nioinaruramu | ‘For a keepsake,’ I think and Gaze, but my tears are As peonies— Why do they so Brightly shine? |
88[ii]
[i] GSS XI: 710: Taira no Sadafun had been conversing with a lady at the residence of Major Counsellor Kunitsune in great secrecy and matters had progressed to the point that they had vowed to be with each other to the end, when the lady was abruptly welcomed into the residence of the late Grand Minister, so he had no way at all of even exchanging letters with her; thus, when the lady’s five year old child was playing in the western wing of the minister’s mansion, Sadafun called her over and saying, ‘Show this to your mother,’ wrote this on her upper arm.
[ii] The text of this contest appears to be the only occurrence of this poem in the waka canon, so it is unclear where Gotoba may have encountered it.
Yōzei-in uta’awase (Engi jūsan-nen kugatsu kokonoka) 21
Left
いまはとてすぎゆく秋のかたみにはかぜのおくれにもみぢをやみん
| ima wa tote sugiyuku aki no katami ni wa kaze no okure ni momiji o ya min | Might now be when Departing autumn’s Keepsake is Presented on the breeze: A glimpse of scarlet leaves? |
41
Right
あきながらとしはくれなん紅葉ばをぬさとちらせる山のみねより
| aki nagara toshi wa kurenan momijiba o nusa to chiraseru yama no mine yori | It’s autumn, so The year has reached its dusk; Scarlet leaves for A garland are made to scatter From the mountain peaks… |
42
Kinkai wakashū 18
For a painting of fresh herbs on a folding screen.
かすがののとぶひののもりけふとてや昔かたみに若なつむらん
| kasuga no no tobuhi nomori kyō tote ya mukashi katami ni wakana tsumuran | Upon the plain of Kasuga At Tobuhi, a field warden Wonders if ‘twas today Long ago? His basket of memories With fresh herbs filled, perhaps… |
