Composed on blossom fallen on the water.
はなさそふあらしやみねをわたるらんさくらなみよるたにがはのみづ
| Fana sasoFu arasi ya mine wo wataruran sakuranami yoru tanigaFa no midu | Enticing the blossom Is it the storm wind upon the peak That passes o’er The cherry waves breaking In the waters of a valley stream? |
Lord Minamoto no Masakane
Topic unknown.
たごのうらにうち出でてみればしろたへのふじのたかねに雪はふりつつ
| tago no ura ni uchi’idete mireba shirotae no fuji no takane ni yuki wa furitsutsu | From the bay at Tago I see, when gazing out, White as mulberry cloth On the heights of Fuji’s peak— The snow is ever falling. |
Akahito
Winter.
たつた山みねのしぐれの糸よわみぬけどみだるるよもの紅葉葉
| tatsutayama mine no shigure no ito yowami nukedo midaruru yomo no momijiba | Upon Mount Tatsuta The showers on the peak Are fragile threads, indeed— They tug, yet leave confused The scarlet leaves everywhere… |
Putting the syllables of ‘maidenflower’ (ominaFesi) at the beginning of each line.
をぐら山みね立ちならしなくしかのへにける秋をしる人ぞなき
| wogurayama mine tatinarasi naku sika no Fenikeru aki wo siru Fito zo naki | Ogura Mountain’s Peak seems trampled down by The belling stags: Many autumns’ passing— No one knows it as they do! |
Tsurayuki
Autumn
秋のよを吹あげの峰の木がらしによこ雲しらぬ山のはの月
| aki no yo o fukiage no mine no kogarashi ni yokogumo shiranu yama no ha no tsuki | On an autumn night Above Fukiage peak To the chill wild wind’s Streaming clouds paying no heed is The moon upon the mountain’s edge. |
Ietaka
[One of] Five love poems in a Twenty Poem Sequence composed in his retreat in Kenryaku 2 [1212].
あらち山やた野の浅茅色付きぬ人の心の峰の淡雪
| arachiyama yatano no asaji irozukinu hito no kokoro no mine no awayuki | By Arachi Mountain, In Yata meadow the cogon grass Has taken on passion’s hues, but My lady’s heart is A peak covered in snow-spume. |
Ietaka
Composed as a poem on blossom, when he held a poetry match.
をはつせの花のさかりをみわたせばかすみにまがふみねのしら雲
| woFatuse no Fana no sakari wo miwataseba kasumi ni magaFu ne no sirakumo | When at Hatsuse Across the blossoms’ profusion I cast my gaze Entangled in haze are The clouds of white upon the peak. |
Senior Assistant Governor-General of Dazai, Shige’ie
On the conception of hidden love, when he held a poetry match in one hundred rounds at his house, while he was Major Captain of the Left.
もらすなよ雲ゐるみねのはつしぐれ木葉は下にいろかはるとも
| morasu na yo kumo’iru mine no hatsushigure ko no ha wa shita ni iro kawaru tomo | O, don’t drip down, Peak-clinging clouds First shower! For under you the trees’ leaves Will yet change their hues…[i] |
The Regent and Grand Minister
[i] An allusive variation on KKS V: 260.
For the Poetry Contest in One Hundred Rounds, held at the Residence of the Regent and Palace Minister.
ふじのねのけぶりもなほぞたちのぼるうへなき物はおもひなりけり
| fuji no ne no keburi mo nao zo tachinoboru ue naki mono wa omoinarikeri | From the peak of Fuji The smoke yet Rises up, but Nothing tops The fires of my passion.[i] |
Lord Ietaka
[i] An allusive variation on SIS XIV: 891.
Left
みにそへてもたらぬ秋ををしむとてくれん事こそわびしかりけれ
| mi ni soete motaranu aki o oshimu tote kuren koto koso wabishikarikere | It mounts up, Unreliable, autumn Fills me with regret, and That it fades into dusk, indeed, Is truly sad. |
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Right
もみぢつつしぐれふりいでてゆく秋をみねの朝霧たちもとめなん
| momijitsutsu shigure furi’idete yuku aki o mine no asagiri tachi mo tomenan | Ever marked with autumn hues The showers fall on Autumn as it goes; The morning mist around the peak Arises, then lingers on. |
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