Left (Tie).
世とゝもに吹上の濱のしほ風に靡く眞砂のくだけてぞ思ふ
| yo to tomo ni fukiage no hama no shio kaze ni nabiku masago no kudakete zo omou |
Long lasting as the world, Upon the beach at Fukiage By the tide-borne wind The streaming sands Are shattered as my thoughts of you. |
111
Right
住の江の松のねたくやよる浪のよるとはなげき夢をだに見で
| sumi no e no matsu no netaku ya yoru nami no yoru to wa nageki yume o dani mide |
The Suminoe Pines: how I envy them! Roots Washed by waves, My night is sunk in sorrow, Lacking e’en a glimpsed dream. |
112
Left (Win).
松が根をいそべの浪のうつたえにあらはれぬべき袖の上かな
| matsu ga ne o isobe no nami no utsutae ni arawarenubeki sode no ue kana |
The pine trees’ roots By stony shore bound waves Are struck, and Must stand revealed Upon my sleeves. |
103
Right
初雁のとわたる風のたよりにもあらぬ思ひを誰につたへん
| hatsukari no towataru kaze no tayori ni mo aranu omoi o tare ni tsutaen |
The first, returning goose, Borne before the gate of heaven, of the unseen wind Is no harbinger; Just so the fires of my love: To whom should I reveal them? |
104
Left (Tie).
網代木に櫻こませば行春のいさよふ浪をえやはとゞむる
| ajirogi ni sakura komaseba yuku haru no isayou nami o e ya wa todomuru |
Can stakes of fish traps, Mixed with cherry petals, Departing spring’s Impeded waves Bring to a halt, perhaps? |
27
Right
あはれいかに霞も花もなれなれて雲しく谷に歸る鶯
| aware ika ni kasumi mo hana mo narenarete kumo shiku tani ni kaeru uguisu |
O, however much The hazes and the blossoms We have come to love, To the cloud-strewn valleys The warbler does return. |
28
To the same lady, one morning as it was getting light when I had been by her shutters all night.
あけがたき二見の浦に寄る波の袖のみぬれしおきつしま人
| akegataki Futami no ura ni yoru nami no sode nomi nuresi okitusimabito |
Dawn comes unwillingly To the Bay of Futami, where The approaching waves Have drenched the sleeves of The offshore islanders. |