さみだれによの深けゆけばほととぎすひとり山辺を鳴きて過ぐなり
samidare ni
yo no fukeyukeba
hototogisu
hitori yamabe o
nakitesugu nari | In the summer rain,
As the night fall on,
A cuckoo
All alone from the mountainside
Does call, passing by. |
Waiting for a cuckoo
ほととぎすかならずまつとなけれどもよなよなめをもさましつるかな
hototogisu
kanarazu matsu to
nakeredomo
yonayona me o mo
samashitsuru kana | O, cuckoo,
Not for definite have I awaited
You, and yet
Night after night have my eyes
Stayed open! |
Round Ten
Left (Win)
よひのまぞ人をばまちしほととぎすあくるまでこそねられざりけれ
yoi no ma zo
hito oba machishi
hototogisu
akuru made koso
nerarezarikere | All night long
Did I await him once, but
T’is the cuckoo:
Even more until the dawn, that
Keeps me from my sleep! |
Shun’e
19
Right
花はすぎ紅葉はまだき夏山にをりえてもなく時鳥かな
hana wa sugi
momiji wa madaki
natsuyama ni
oriete mo naku
hototogisu kana | The blossoms are past, and
Scarlet leaves have yet to come;
In the summer mountains
How lively sings
The cuckoo! |
Kenshō
20
The Left’s poem certainly commands one’s interest.
On crickets
蟋蟀之 待歓 秋夜乎 寐験無 枕与吾者
こほろぎの まちよろこぶる あきのよを ぬるしるしなし まくらとわれは
koporogi no
matiyorokoburu
aki no yo wo
nuru sirusi nasi
makura to ware pa | The crickets
Await with pleasure
An autumn night—
No point in sleeping then
For me and my pillow both… |
Anonymous
In reply.
おもひやれちかひし夜はのうきはしをにしきたちきてかへる心を
omoiyare
chikaishi yo wa no
ukihashi o
nishiki tachikite
kaeru kokoro o | O, recall to mind
That recent night, when
Upon a floating bridge,
Brocade severed,
You returned—how you felt then… |
Kojijū
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The moon over the seashore in spring.
住吉の松の木がくれ行く月のおぼろにかすむはるのよの空
sumiyoshi no
matsu no kigakure
yuku tsuki no
oboro ni kasumu
haru no yo no sora | At Sumiyoshi
Heading to hide between the pines
Goes the moon,
Mistily hazed is
The sky this springtime night. |
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たれすみて誰ながむらん故郷のよしのの宮の春のよの月
tare sumite
tare nagamuran
furusato no
yoshino no miya no
haru no yo no tsuki | Who might have lived, and
Gazed from
These ancient grounds of
The palace of Yoshino at
The moon this springtime night? |
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The moon over an ancient estate in spring.
ふる郷はみしごともあらずあれにけり影ぞむかしのはるのよの月
furusato wa
mishi goto mo arazu
arenikeri
kage zo mukashi no
haru no yo no tsuki | This ancient estate
Is not as I remember,
Lying all in ruins, but
The light is as of old from
The moon this springtime night. |
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The spring moon.
ながむれば衣手かすむ久かたの月のみやこの春のよのそら
nagamureba
koromode kasumu
hisakata no
tsuki no miyako no
haru no yo no sora | When I gaze upon them
My sleeves are hazy beneath
The eternal
Moon above the capital’s
Sky this springtime night. |
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The moon above the mountains in spring.
kaze sawagu
ochi no tōyama
sora harete
sakura ni kumoru
haru no yo no tsuki | The wind murmurs above
Above the distant mountains
Clearing the skies
Clouded with cherry blossom from
The moon this spring night. |
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