[Sent to] the Assistant Master of the Empress’ Household, the morning after New Year Archery.
弓はりのまとゐやいかにありしそもいるかた山は遠ざかりけん
| yumihari no matoi ya ika ni arishi somo iru katayama wa tōzakariken | The archery Targets: how Were they, indeed? The direction you were shooting, as a mountainside Distant seems to have been! |
On topics from the Six Volumes: Bracken.
うちかへす片山畑のさわらびのしたにもゆるもあらはれにけり
| uchikaesu katayamahata no sawarabi no shita ni moyuru mo arawarenikeri | Tilling The fields on the mountainside, Fresh bracken’s Secret shoots, smouldering, Have been revealed! |
The Kinugasa Minister of the Centre
[Kinugasa no Ieyoshi 衣笠家良 (1192-1264)]
Composed on ‘enjoying cool’ for the Poetry Match held by Yorisuke, the Minister of Justice.
ひさぎ生ふるかた山かげにしのびつつふきけるものを秋の夕風
| hisagi ouru katayama kage ni shinobitsutsu fukikeru mono o aki no yūkaze | Where red-oaks grow and Cast their shade upon the mountain slopes Ever secretly Does it blow— The autumn evening breeze. |
Shun’e
うちなびき春さりくればひさぎおふるかた山かげに鶯ぞなく
| uchinabiki haru sarikureba hisagi ouru katayama kage ni uguisu zo naku | Trailing in Comes spring, then Where red-oaks grow and Cast their shade upon the mountain slopes A warbler sings![i] |
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[i] An allusive variation on: Composed on ‘enjoying cool’ for the Poetry Match held by Yorisuke, the Minister of Justice. ひさぎ生ふるかた山かげにしのびつつふきけるものを秋の夕風 hisagi ouru / katayama kage ni / shinobitsutsu / fukikeru mono o / aki no yūkaze ‘Where red-oaks grow and / Cast their shade upon the mountain slopes / Ever secretly does it blow— / The autumn evening breeze.’ Shune (SKKS IV: 274).