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Daisai-in zen goshū 136

苗代の水こさせずと恨むるは君が心や小山田の堰

naFasiro no
midu kosasezu to
uramuru Fa
kimi ga kokoro ya
woyamada no seki

Water to the seedlings
You will not let come;
I hate that –
Is your heart, then,
A dam between the paddies?

咲きにけり苗代水に影見えて田中の里の山吹の花

sakinikeri
naFasiro midu ni
kage miete
tanaka no sato no
yamabuki no Fana

So, they have bloomed;
Among the waters of the seedling beds
Do I see the light;
At the dwelling among the rice-fields
Of the kerria blooms.

Taikenmon’in Horikawa
待賢門院堀河

逢ふことを苗代水にまかせてはこさんこさじは小山田のせき

aFu koto wo
naFasiro midu ni
makasete Fa
kosan kosazi Fa
oyamada no seki

Our meeting
The waters round the seedlings
Does resemble:
Passing and yet not passing,
The Oyamada Barrier.

Anonymous