From the Kitayama Thirty Poem Sequence:[i] Spring.
しる人も嵐にまがふ梅のはな色をも香をも散るにまかせて
shiru hito mo arashi ni magau mume no hana iro o mo ka o mo chiru ni makasete Someone to know of them [ii]
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[i] This was a Thirty Poem sequence composed for a meet held by Saionji Kintsune 西園寺公経 (1171-1244) at his residence in Kitayama (near the current site of the Kinkakuji 金閣寺) in Kyoto during the 1230s.
[ii] An allusive variation on: Breaking off a branch of plum blossom, he sent it to a certain person.
君ならで誰にかみせん梅花色をも香をも知る人ぞ知る
kimi narade tare ni ka misen mume no hana iro o mo ka o mo s hiru hito zo shiru If not to you
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See also: 見る人もあらしにまよふ 山里にむかしおぼゆる花の香ぞする
miru hito mo arashi ni mayou yamazato ni mukashi oboyuru hana no ka zo suru Someone to gaze upon them
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An old plum tree by the eaves.
なにとなくのきなつかしきむめゆゑにすみけん人の心をぞしる
nani to naku noki natsukashiki mume yue ni sumiken hito no kokoro o zo shiru Somehow,
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Plum at my lodging while travelling.
ひとりぬるくさのまくらのうつりがは垣ねのむめのにほひなりけり
hitori nuru kusa no makura no utsuriga wa kakine no mume no nioi narikeri Sleeping alone
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つくりおきしこけのふすまに鶯は身にしむ梅のかやにほふらん
tsukuri’okishi koke no fusuma ni uguisu wa mi ni shimu mume no ka ya niouran Having built
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When a warbler was singing from the plum blossom.
むめがかにたぐへてきけばうぐひすのこゑなつかしき春の山ざと
mume ga ka ni taguete kikeba uguisu no koe natsukashiki haru no yamazato When the scent of plum
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When I was at a place called Moriyama[i] in Ise, and my hut was saturated with the scent of plum.
しばのいほにとくとくむめのにほひきてやさしきかたもあるすみかかな
shiba no io ni tokutoku mume no nioi kite yasashiki kata mo aru sumika kana To a brushwood hut
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[i] The location of this place remains unknown.
Composed looking at the plum before my hut.
梅が香をたにふところにふきためていりこん人にしめよ春風
mume ga ka o tani futokoro ni fukitamete irikon hito ni shimeyo harukaze With the scent of plum
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When I was living in Saga, and the way was blocked by plum blossom scattering from my hermitage on the breeze.
ぬしいかに風わたるとていとふらんよそにうれしき梅のにほひを
nushi ika ni kaze wataru tote itouran yoso ni ureshiki mume no nioi o How their master
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このはるはしづが垣ねにふればひてむめがかとめん人したしまん
kono haru wa shizu ga kakine ni furebaite mume ga ka tomen hito shitashiman This spring
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心せんしづがかきねの梅はあやなよしなくすぐる人とどめけり
kokoro sen O, they linger in the heart!
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