Orchids
Left
はるきてはきのふばかりをあさみどりなべてけさこくのはな りにけり
haru kite wa kinō bakari o asamidori nabete kesa koku no wa na rikeri Spring’s coming means, though
Tsurayuki
Right
はるさめにしべゆるぶらし春のくさこくのはな べてさきみちにけり
harusame ni shibe yuruburashi haru no kusa koku no wa na bete sakimichinikeri In the springtime rain,
20
Topic unknown.
木にもあらず草にもあらぬ竹のよのはしにわが身はなりぬべらなり
ki ni mo arazu ’Tis not a tree,
Anonymous
A certain person states that this is a poem by Prince Takatsu.
をみなへしやまののくさとふりしかどさかゆくときもありけるものを
ominaeshi yamano no kusa to furishikado sakayuku toki mo arikeru mono o The maidenflowers
45[1]
をみなへしさけるやまべのあきかぜはふくゆふかげをたれかかたらむ
ominaeshi sakeru yamabe no akikaze wa fuku yūkage o tare ka kataramu A maidenflower
46
[1] This poem is almost identical to poem 4 in Uda-in ominaeshi uta’awase.
ときのまもあきのいろをやをみなへしながきあだなにいはれはてなん
toki no ma mo aki no iro o ya ominaeshi nagaki adana ni iwarehatenan For such a brief time
39
あきのののくさをみなへし しらぬみははなのなにこそおどろかれぬれ
aki no no no kusa o mina heshi shiranu mi wa ana no na ni koso odorokarenure Through all the autumn meadows’
40
In the year after that in which the Teishi Emperor relinquished the throne, he held a maidenflower match, making no instruction as to who should lead the teams of the Left and Right, so His Majesty and Her Majesty, the Empress, fulfilled those roles.
Left
くさがくれあきすぎぬべきをみなへしにほひゆゑにやまづみえぬらむ
kusagakure aki suginubeki ominaeshi nioi yue ni ya mazu mienuramu Hidden ‘mongst the grasses
1[1]
Right
あらがねのつちのしたにてあきへしはけふのうらてをまつをみなへし
aragane no tsuchi no shita nite aki heshi wa kyō no urate o matsu ominaeshi As ore
2[2]
[1] Shinsen man’yōshū 508
[2] Shinsen man’yōshū 530; Fubokushō 4229.
Love on seeing again.
忘られぬ思ひはさしも浅からで浅かの沼の草の名もうし
wasurarenu I cannot forget
Emperor Gomizunō
月夜よみ鳴く霍公鳥見まく欲り我れ草取れり見む人もがも
tukuyo yomi On a fair moonlit night
Anonymous
For a folding screen for the residence of Minister of the Right Tsunesuke.
野辺見ればわかなつみけりむべしこそかきねの草もはるめきにけれ
nobe mireba When I gaze upon the meadows, and
Tsurayuki
Fireflies
五月雨に草のいほりはくづれども蛍と成るぞうれしかりける
samidare ni In the early summer rain
Ōe no Masafusa
From the Later Hundred Poem Sequence from the Reign of Former Emperor Horikawa.
たかせぶねのぼるほりえのみづあさみみくさがくれにかはづなくなり
takasebune noboru horie no mizu asami mikusagakure ni kawazu nakunari Skips
Fujiwara no Akinaka
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