Composed on wisteria hanging from a pine tree, when I had a diorama of the Ōi River constructed as a stimulation for an archery meet.
たちかへりみてもわたらん大井川かはべの松にかかる藤なみ
| tachikaeri mitemo wataran ōigawa kawabe no matsu ni kakaru fujinami | Let me rise and return To gaze across The River Ōi— From the pines upon the river bank Hang wisteria waves. |
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おほゐ川ゐせきの水のわくらばにけふはたのめしくれにやはあらぬ
| ōigawa iseki no mizu no wakuraba ni kyō wa tanomeshi kure ni ya aranu | Upon the Ōi River At the weirs the waters Seethe—for once Today you had promised me The evening, had you not? |
Kiyowara no Motosuke
When he was in service at an imperial progress to Ōi.
おほゐがは井せきのおとのなかりせばこのはをしけるわたりとやみん
| oFowigawa wiseki no oto no nakariseba ko no Fa wo sikeru watari wo ya min | Upon the River Ōi If the weirs sounded Not, then At the leaves spread All around would we even look? |
Master of the Palace Repairs Office Akisue
When various people went to view the scarlet leaves by the Ōi River in the Tenth Month.
大井河かはべのもみぢちらぬまはとなせのきしにながゐしぬべし
| ōigawa kawabe no momiji chiranu ma wa tonase no kishi ni nagainubeshi | On the Ōi River’s Riverside the scarlet leaves Have yet to scatter, so At Tonase’s bank I would linger long. |
Composed in the Tenth Month of Jōhō 3 [1076] when the reigning emperor had made a progress to the River Ōi to go hunting.
大井川ふるきながれを尋ねきて嵐のやまの紅葉をぞ見る
| oFowigaFa Furuki nagare wo tadunekite arasi no yama no momidi wo zo miru |
The River Ōi: This ancient flow Have I come to visit, and Around the mount of storms, Scarlet leaves I see! |
Emperor Shirakawa
白河院
Composed when His Majesty’s gentlemen had gone to the River Ōi on the first day of the Tenth Month to compose poetry.
落ちつもる紅葉をみれば大井川井堰に秋もとまる なりけり
| otitumoru momidi wo mireba oFowigaFa iseki ni aki mo tomaru narikeri |
Fallen in piles are The scarlet leaves – when I see them at The River Ōi The weirs and dams autumn Have held in place… |
Former Major Councillor Kintō
前大納言公任