Clouds 雲
ふじの山おりゐる雲は立ちのぼりけぶりのやがてなるにやあるらん
| fuji no yama ori’iru kumo wa tachinobori keburi no yagate naru ni ya aruran | From the mount of Fuji Descending, the clouds Rise again, and At last into smoke Do they turn, I wonder? |
Kanemasa
Tag Archives: keburi
Eikyū hyakushu 384
Kindling 薪
太山柴おのがかまどにとりくべてあさけ夕けのけぶりたつめり
| miyama shiba ono ga kamado ni torikubete asake yūke no keburi tatsumeri | Brushwood from the mountains’ depths To my kiln have I Taken and kindled, that Both morn and eve The smoke does seem to rise. |
Higo
Eikyū hyakushu 383
Kindling 薪
折りくぶる柴さまざまにみゆれどもけぶりはひとつ色にこそたて
| orikuburu shiba samazama ni miyuredomo keburi wa hitotsu iro ni koso tate | Broken for kindling, The brushwood in many shapes Does appear, yet The smoke in but one Shade does rise. |
Kanemasa
Minbukyō yukihira uta’awase 12
Left
逢ひがたみ眼より涙は流るれど恋をば消たぬものにざりける
| aFigatami me yori namida Fa nagaruredo koFi woba ketanu mono ni zarikeru | At the impossibility of meeting From my eyes the tears Flow, yet My love extinguished Shall never be! |
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Right
夢にだに見ぬ人恋に燃ゆる身の煙は空に満ちやしぬらむ
| yume ni dani minu Fito koFi ni moyuru mi no keburi Fa sora ni miti ya sinuramu | Even in dreams Unseen is she, yet with love For her I burn; Will my smoke the skies Fill with my death, I wonder? |
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Tametadake godo hyakushu 729
百草の花のけぶりや七夕の雲の衣の袖に染むらむ
| momokusa no hana no keburi ya tanabata no kumo no koromo no sode ni shimuramu |
Are all the grasses Blooms, a smoke, that into The Weaver Maid’s Robe of cloud’s Sleeves will sink? |
Fujiwara no Shunzei
Horikawa hyakushu 1076
大原やをのの炭竃雪降りて心ぼそげに立つ煙かな
| oFoFara ya wono no sumigama yuki Furite kokorobosogeni tatu keburi kana |
Wide the meadows where Upon my charcoal kiln The snow is falling in Sad solitude The smoke arises. |
Minamoto no Moroyori (1068-1139)
源師頼
Horikawa Hyakushu 489
雲かかるとをちのさとのかやりびは煙たつとも見えぬなりけり
| kumo kakaru tōchi no sato no kayaribi wa keburi tatsutomo mienunarikeri |
Draped with cloud In far distant Tōchi From the smudge pots Smoke rises, yet Indeed, I see it not! |
Minamoto no Moritoki
源師時
(1077-1136)
Winter II: 13
Left.
山里の寂しさ思ふ煙ゆへ絶え絶え立てる峯の椎柴
| yamazato no sabishisa omou keburi yue taedae tateru mine no shiishiba |
That mountain dwelling’s Loneliness feeling, The smoke, Rising in sporadic strands: The brushwood on the peak… |
565
Right (Win).
冬籠る草の戸ざしは霜枯れてま近き山の峯の椎柴
| fuyugomoru kusa no tozashi wa shimogarete majikaki yama no mine no shiishiba |
Sealed in winter The blockading grasses are Seared by frost, and How much closer is the mountain Peak’s brushwood. |
566
Both teams say that the conceptions of the two poems resemble each other closely [kokoro hōfutsu].
Shuzei’s judgement: The Left, by starting, ‘That mountain dwelling’s loneliness feeling, the smoke’ (yamazato no sabishisa omou keburi yue) sounds as if it is the brushwood itself which has some sensitivity to the situation, and are rising up from time to time. I wonder about that. The Right’s evergreen groves ‘nearing the mountain’ (majikaki yama) is what should win.
SKKS XI: 1010
Sent to a woman.
風ふけば室の八嶋のゆふ煙心のそらにたちにけるかな
| kaze fukeba muro no yashima no yū keburi kokoro no sora ni tachinikeru kana |
When the wind blows ‘cross the waters of Muro no Yashima At eventide as smoke, Up to the firmament of my heart, My passion soars… |
Fujiwara no Koreshige (953-989)
Spring I: 20
Left (Tie).
立わたる野邊の霞を煙にてもえ出にけるこれや若草
| tachiwataru nobe no kasumi o keburi nite moe’idenikeru kore ya wakakusa |
Spreading, everywhere, Across the plain, the haze Seems smoke: Is the burning the buds Of new-grown grass… |
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Right (Tie).
もえ出づる野邊の春草末わかみ空とゝもにぞ淺緑なる
| moeizuru nobe no haru kusa sue wakami sora to tomo ni zo asamidori naru |
Shooting up Across the plain, the grass’ Tips are so young That, with the skies, They celadon seem… |
The Provisional Master of the Empress’ Household Office.
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Both teams say there is ‘nothing remarkable’ about the other’s poem, while Shunzei says simply the purport of both is ‘generally appropriate’ and that it would be ‘difficult to determine’ a winner.