Orange blossom at an ancient estate.
いにしへをしのぶとなしにふる里のゆふべの雨ににほふたち花
inishie o shinobu to nashi ni furusato no yūbe no ame ni niou tachibana Bygone days [i]
[i] This poem functions as a reply to: Topic unknown. さつきまつ花橘のかをかげば昔の人の袖のかぞする satsuki matsu / hana tachibana no / ka o kageba / mukashi no hito no / sode no ka zo suru ‘Awaiting the Fifth Month / The orange blossoms’ / Scent fills the air, and / Folk from long ago / With their perfumed sleeves come back to me.’ Anonymous (KKS III: 139 ).
On hearing a cuckoo when I was alone on a night when it was raining heavily.
郭公なくこゑあやな五月やみきく人なしみあめは降りつつ
hototogisu naku koe ayana satsuki yami kiku hito nashi mi ame wa furitsutsu O, cuckoo,
山ざくらいまはのころの花の枝にゆふべの雨の露ぞこぼるる
yamazakura ima wa no koro no hana no e ni yūbe no ame no tsuyu zo koboruru The mountain cherries’
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Blossom amid the evening rain.
やま桜あだに散りにし花の枝に夕べの雨の露ぞ残れる
yamazakura ada ni chirinishi hana no e ni yūbe no ame no tsuyu zo nokoreru The mountain cherry
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Cherry blossom in the rain.
雨ふるとたちかくるれば山桜花のしづくにそほちぬるかな
ame furu to tachi kakurureba yamazakura hana no shizuku ni sōchinuru kana In the falling rain
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Bracken.
さわらびのもえいづる春に成りぬればのべのかすみもたなびきにけり
sawarabi no moe’izuru ame ni narinureba nobe no kasumi mo tanabikinikeri The bracken
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けふのまの心にかへておもひやれながめつつのみすぐす心を
kyō no ma no One day long last
Izumi Shikibu
The Beginning of Autumn
Left (Win—in a certain book Tie)
しぐれにもあめにもあらぬはつぎりのたつにもそらはさしくもりけり
shigure ni mo ame ni mo aranu hatsugiri no tatsu ni mo sora wa sashikumorikeri Neither a shower
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としごとにあふとはすれどたなばたのぬるよのかずぞすくなかりける
toshi goto ni Every year
Mitsune
On thunder.
天のはら鳴る神いかに思ふらんけふは身をしる雨とこそふれ
ama no hara From the plain of Heaven
Anonymous
On love in the rain, when she presented a hundred poem sequence for the Hōji hyakushu [1248].
おもひきやなみだにしぼる袖に猶身をしる雨をそへん物とは
omoiki ya Never did I think, that
Tsuchimikado-in no Kosaishō
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