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Kinkai wakashū 589

Composed on a large number of travellers being at mountain retreat surrounded by pine trees.

まれにきて聞くだにかなし山がつの苔のいほりの庭の松風

mare ni kite
kiku dani kanashi
yamagatsu no
koke no iori no
niwa no matsukaze
Rarely do I come, but
Even hearing it is so sad—
In a woodcutter’s
Mossy hut,
The pinewinds through the garden.[i]

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[i] See: After the death of Sada’ie’s mother, around autumn time he was staying at a temple near her grave and composed this. まれにくる夜はもかなしき松風をたえずやこけのしたにきくらん mare ni kuru / yo wa mo kanashiki / matsu kaze o / taezu ya koke no / shita ni kikuran ‘Rarely did I come / At nights now I sorrowfully / Pine trees in the wind / Unceasingly beneath the moss / I wonder will you hear it?’ Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari (Shinkokinshū VIII: 796)

Kinkai wakashū 587

For the place on a folding screen with a picture of snow falling somewhere with a large number of travellers.

かたしきの衣手いたくさえわびぬ雪ふかきよのみねの松風

katashiki no
koromode itaku
saewabinu
yuki fukaki yo no
mine no matsukaze
A single spread
Sleeve is truly filled
With lonely chill,
On a night deep amidst the snow
With the pinewinds on the peak.

587