From the Master of the Right Capital Office, when the pinks were blooming in profusion.
我がそでにうつらばうつれてもやまずつみやいれましなでしこのはな
| wa ga sode ni utsuraba utsure te mo yamazu tsumi ya iremashi nadeshiko no hana | If, to my sleeves It is to shift, then let it! My hand will not cease To pick and I would tuck within A flowering pink! |
Minamoto no Muneyuki
From the poetry contest in 1500 rounds.
見ぬ人をまつの木かげの苔むしろ猶敷島ややまとなでしこ
| minu hito o matsu no kokage no kokemushiro nao shikishima ya yamato nadeshiko | For a man unseen She pines in the shadow of the trees On a mossy bed for Her coverlet, the isles that make Yamato – a pink! |
Kūnaikyō, in service to Former Emperor Gotoba
山がつの垣ほ荒るとも折々にあはれはかけよ撫子の露
| yamagatsu no kakiho arutomo oriori ni aware wa kakeyo nadeshiko no tsuyu | The mountain folk’s Fences are crude, yet Once in a while Show some pity for The dewdrops on the pink. |
An allusive variation on: KKS XIV: 742.
[One of] two poems composed by Yamanoue no Okura listing the flowers of the autumn fields.
芽之花 乎花葛花 瞿麦之花 姫部志 又藤袴 朝皃之花
萩の花尾花葛花なでしこの花をみなへしまた藤袴朝顔の花
| pagi no pana wobana kudupana nadesiko no pana wominapesi mata pudibakama asagapo no pana | Bush clover blooms, Silver grass and kudzu, Pinks, Valerian And fujibakama, Morning glory blooms. |
Yamanoue no Okura
山上憶良
Pinks.
いつしかと起きうからでもみゆるかな咲くやあしたの床夏の花
| itsushika to okiukarademo miyuru kana saku ya ashita no tokonatsu no hana |
Eagerly to Rise is hard, indeed, yet Might I catch a glimpse Do you flower with the sunup O pink blossoms? |
Kei’un incorporates a play-on-words into his allusion, between asita no toko 朝の床 ‘bed at sunup’ in Sosei’s poem, and ashita no tokonatsu 朝の床夏 ‘pinks at sunup’ in his own.
On pinks: on looking at a picture of Masashige, and thinking of his unbreakable spirit.
なでし子にかゝるなみだや楠の露
| nadeshiko ni kakaru namida ya kusu no tsuyu |
For the pinks (a darling child) Tears shed are Dewdrops from the camphor tree. |
(1691)
On pinks.
醉て寢むなでしこ咲ける石の上
| youte nemu nadeshiko sakeru ishi no ue |
Drunk, I’ll lay me down to sleep where Pinks bloom Upon the rocks. |
(1687)