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今しはとわびにしものをささがにの衣にかかり我をたのむる
| ima si Fa to wabinisi mono wo sasagani no koromo ni kakari ware wo tanomuru | He should have been here by now I sorrowfully thought, when A tiny crab, a spider, Clung to my robe, Giving me hope… |
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Kinkai wakashū 640
Kinkai wakashū 615
Kinkai wakashū 613
Composed after I had met Dharma Eye Teinin,[i] and heard him tell the tale of Ōmine[ii] among other things.
| okuyama no koke no koromo ni oku tsuyu wa namida no ame no shizuku narikeri | Deep within the mountains Upon his robe of moss The falling dewdrops are A rain of tear Droplets. |
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[i] Teinin 定忍 has not been identified, but from the context here, he must have been a yamabushi 山伏, an itinerant Buddhist monk and practitioner of shugendō.
[ii] Ōmine 大峰 was a mountain in Yoshino in Yamato which was a major location for practitioners of the ascetic Buddhist practice of shugendō 修験道, which involved, among other things, ascending the mountain to increase one’s spiritual power.
Nishinomiya uta’awase 17
Asters and the Same
Round Seventeen
Left
あふことは片野ののべの蘭たれきてみよと露のおくらん
| au koto wa katano no nobe no fujibakama tare kitemiyo to tsuyu no okuran | Our meeting, so hard: In the hillside meadows grow Violet asters— Who should to come to see them Amongst the fallen dew? |
Nakafusa, Former Governor of Awaji
33
Right
色もかもよそへてぞみる蘭ねずりの衣馴れしかたみに
| iro mo ka mo yosoete zo miru fujibakama nezuri no koromo nareshi katami ni | Both scent and hue Do I imagine seeing Among the violet asters, Of his patterned robe, So familiar, a reminder they are… |
Hyōenokami
34
These poems, both Left and Right, appear to be of about the same quality, but while I am familiar with robes patterned with purple gromwell, I do wonder what it is that is patterning the robes here. Is the poet composing on asters imagining them to be gromwell? Even if that’s the case, the conception is not particularly apparent, so I have to say that the Left is better.
Kinkai wakashū 549
Entō ōn’uta’awase 35
Round Thirty-Five
Left (Tie)
おのがすむ嶺の木がらし寒き夜は鹿も紅葉の衣きるらし
| ono ga sumu mine no kogarashi samuki yo wa shika mo momiji no koromo kirurashi | Where he dwells upon The peak, the bitter wind On a night so chill, for The stag, of scarlet leaves Does seem to make a robe. |
The Supernumerary Major Counsellor
69
Right
すみのぼる月にうらむる声すなりねられぬ鹿や夜寒なるらん
| suminoboru tsuki ni uramuru koesunari nerarenu shika ya yozamu naruran | Climbing clearly At the moon, in despair Does he cry— Sleepless, does the stag Feel night’s chill, perhaps? |
Nobunari
70
The Left’s poem has ‘the stag, of scarlet leaves does seem to make a robe’ which sounds charming, and the Right’s poem has ‘sleepless, does the stag feel night’s chill, perhaps’, which appears refined. Thus, they tie.
Kinkai wakashū 438
Kinkai wakashū 388
In the Twelfth Month of Kempō 5 [January 1218], I stayed at a monk’s cell at the Eifukuji on account of a directional taboo. When I returned home the following morning, I left behind a jacket
春まちてかすみの袖にかさねよと霜のころものおきてこそゆけ
| haru machite kasumi no sode ni kasaneyo to shimo no koromo no okite koso yuke | Awaiting the springtime, Sleeves of haze, O, layer up! A frosty robe I leave you as I go! |
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