A poem on the beginning of spring.
はるきぬと人はいへどもうぐひすのなかぬかぎりはあらじとぞ思
| Faru kinu to Fito Fa iFedomo uguFisu no nakanu kagiri Fa arazi to zo omoFu | Spring has come, or So folk say, yet While the warbler Sings not, I feel that is untrue. |
Mibu no Tadamine
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KKS XIX: 1004
An ancient-styled poem to supplement a long poem.
君が世に相坂山の岩清水木隠れたりと思ける哉
| kimi ga yo ni aFusakayama no iFasimidu kogakuretari to omoFikeru kana |
Your Majesty’s reign Is welcome so, as on the mount of Meeting Hill, Spring water from the crags Is hidden in the trees, thus I am I sunk in thought! |
Mibu no Tadamine
Kokin rokujō I: 195
折る菊の雫を多み若ゆてふ濡れ衣をこそ老いの身にきれ
| woru kiku no sizuku wo oFomi wakayu teFu nureginu wo koso oi no mi ni kire |
The picked chrysanthemums Have so many droplets Returning youth, that A dampened, pointless, robe I’ll wear about my aged frame! |
Mibu no Tadamine
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Tadamine-shū 52
駿河なる宇津の山辺の現にも夢にも人に逢はぬなりけり
| suruga naru utsu no yamabe no utsutsu ni mo yume ni mo hito ni awanu narikeri |
In Suruga At Utsu Mountain In truth and In my dreams she Is nowhere to be seen… |
Mibu no Tadamine
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SKKS III: 283
Composed for a folding screen of the moon, during the Engi period.
夏はつる扇と秋の白露といづれかまづはおかむとすらん
| natsu hatsuru ōgi to aki no shiratsuyu to izure ka mazu wa okamu to suran |
With the end of summer My fan or the autumn’s Silver dewdrops Which will be the first To fall, I wonder! |
Mibu no Tadamine
This poem is also Wakan rōeishū 169.
SKKS XVII: 1599
From a folding screen in the Tenryaku period.
秋風のせきふきこゆるたびごとに聲うちそふるすまのうら浪
| aki kaze no seki fuki koyuru tabi goto ni koe uchisoru suma no uranami |
The Autumn wind Across the barrier blows, and Every gust Carries the sound Of waves upon the beach at Suma. |
Mibu no Tadamine
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SKKS X: 907
Topic unknown.
あづまぢのさやのなか山さやかにも見えぬ雲ゐによをやつくさん
| azumaji no saya no nakayama sayaka ni mo mienu kumoi ni yo o ya tsukusan |
On the Eastland roads Lies Nakayama in Saya; Not clearly at all Can I see through the clouds – I wonder, will I leave the world? |
Mibu no Tadamine
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SIS IX: 515
In answer:
秋萩はまづさす枝より移ろふを露の分くとは思はざらなむ
| aki Fagi Fa madu sasue yori uturoFu wo tuyu no waku to Fa omoFazaranamu |
The autumn bush clover First its protruding branches Turns, so Dew’s fall Does nothing, I think! |
Tadamine
忠岑
GSS XVI: 1178
When no one enquired after him after he was in seclusion having lost his job.
おほあらきの森の草とやなりにけんかりにだに來てとふ人のなき
| oFoaraki no mori no kusa to ya nariniken kari ni dani kite toFu Fito no naki |
As the great Araki Forest flowers Am I become? To come and cut them (even for the sake of it) No one visits at all. |
Mibu no Tadamine
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GSS X: 661
When he had not visited someone whom he had got to know for a long time, he went there, and sent this in from the gate.
住吉の松にたちよる白波のかへる折にや音は泣かるらん
| sumiyosi no matu ni tatiyoru siranami no kaFeru wori ni ya ne Fa nakaruran |
At Sumiyoshi, a pleasant place, The pines are washed over By the whitecaps; With their retreat Are they left rootless, weeping wails? |
Mibu no Tadamine
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