In the final month of the year in which the wife of Middle Councillor Kanesuke had died, Tsurayuki paid him a visit and composed this while they were talking sadly.
恋ふる間に年の暮れなば亡き人の別やいとゞ遠くなりなん
| koFuru ma ni tosi no kurenaba nakibito no wakare ya itodo toFokunarinan |
While thinking fondly of her Should the year come to an end, She, who’s dead, Will be parted even Further from us… |
Ki no Tsurayuki
During the same reign, when there was an imperial excursion and His Majesty commanded the composition of poems.
大井河川辺の松に事問はむかかる御幸やありし昔も
| oFowigawa kaFabe no matu ni koto toFamu kakaru miyuki ya arisi mukasi mo |
At Ōigawa: O, pine trees on the bank I would ask you something: Was there ever such an imperial visit In the days of long ago? |
Ki no Tsurayuki
While on the path across the Shiga Mountains, he met a large number of women, and later composed this and sent it to them.
あづさゆみはるの山辺をこえくれば道もさりあへず花ぞちりける
| adusa yumi Faru no yamabe o koekureba miti mo sariaFezu Fana zo tirikeru |
A catalpa bow When the springtime mountains I traverse I cannot pass along the way So many flowers have fallen! |
Tsurayuki
Composed during the Engi Period for a folding screen, on the spirit of sacred music in the summer:
川社しのにおりはへ乾す衣いかに乾せばか七日干ざらん
| kawa yashiro shino ni orihae hosu koromo ikani hoseba ka nanoka hizaran |
At a river shrine Stems of bamboo wave freely The clothes I’d dry How should I do so? Seven days still damp… |
Ki no Tsurayuki
Topic unknown.
白雲のたなびきわたるあしびきの山のかけはしけふやこえなん
| shira kumo no tanabiki wataru ashihiki no yama no kakehashi kyō ya koenan |
Clouds of white Trail between the Leg-wearying Mountains-brief bridges: Will I pass over them today, I wonder? |
Tsurayuki
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