When I heard that a man had gone to the house of a lady I had visited and called himself Sanekata:
あやしくもわが濡れ衣をきたるかな三笠山を人にかられて
| ayasiku mo wa ga nureginu wo kitaru kana mikasayama wo Fito ni kararete |
How strange that Faultless, a rain-spattered robe I wear; My umbrella—a shield—on mount Mikasa Was taken by another! |
Composed on hearing that a man had come calling on a night when it was raining heavily on a woman who had told him not to come again.
み笠山さし離れぬときゝしかど雨もよにとは思ひし物を
| mikasa yama sasiFanarenu to kikisikado ame mo yo ni to Fa omoFisi mono wo |
The Mount of Mikasa Is very far from you, I’d heard; Surely, not in such rain, Or so I did think! |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部
Topic unknown.
きみがさすみかさの山のもみぢばのいろ
神な月しぐれのあめのそめるなりけり
| kimi ga sasu mikasa no yama no momidiba no iro kaminaduki sigure no ame no someru narikeri |
My lord hangs Garlands of Mikasa Mountain’s Scarlet leaves’ hue: The Godless Month’s Showers of rain Have dyed them. |
Tsurayuki
貫之
Composed when he was in China, gazing up at the moon.
あまの原ふりさけ見ればかすがなるみかさの山にいでし月かも
| ama no Fara Furisakemireba kasuga naru mikasa no yama ni idesi tuki kamo |
To the fields of heaven, I lift my gaze; In Kasuga Above Mount Mikasa Appeared the selfsame moon. |
Abe no Nakamaro (ca 700-770)
It is told that, a long time ago, Nakamaro had been sent to China to study and, after many years without being able to return home, he had the chance to take passage with a Japanese embassy; on saying he was departing , some Chinese gave him a farewell banquet at a place called Meishū (Mingzhou) on the coast. When it grew dark, he saw that a particularly beautiful moon was shining, and composed this poem.