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SKKS XVI: 1492

On the showers of early summer, in a hundred poem sequence of reminiscences.

さみだれはまやのゝきばのあまそゝきあまりなるまでぬるゝ袖かな

samidare wa
maya no nokiba no
ama sosoki
amari naru made
nururu sode kana
The early summer rain
From the eaves of this hut
Pours in rivulets-
Too much by far, for
My soaking sleeves.

Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成

SKKS V: 543

Around the Ninth Month, when he was in Minase for a time: sent by return to someone who said their tears fell like the autumn leaves on Mt. Arashi.

もみぢばをさこそあらしのはらふらめこの山本も雨とふるなり

momijiba o
sa koso arashi no
haraurame
kono yamamoto mo
ame to furu nari
Those autumn leaves
From Arashi must, indeed,
Have been driven:
For in these foothills, too,
They fall as does the rain!

Provisional Middle Councillor [Fujiwara no] Kintsune (1171 – 1244)

SKKS IV: 359

From when he held a poetry contest in five hundred rounds at his house.

ものおもはでかゝるつゆやは袖にをくながめてけりな秋のゆふぐれ

mono’omowade
kakaru tsuyu ya wa
sode ni oku
nagametekeri na
aki no yūgure
Not being sunk in gloomy thought
Why should such dew
Drop on my sleeves?
Perhaps, I’ve gazed too long upon the rain
In the autumn twilight.

The Regent and Grand Minister [Fujiwara no Yoshitsune] (1169 – 1206)
藤原良経