When there had been a gale, and someone had called to see how she was, in the silence later, she wrote this and sent it.
荒かりし風の後より絶えするは蜘蛛手にすがく糸にやあるらん
| arakarisi kaze no noti yori taesuru Fa kumode ni sugaku ito ni ya aruran |
Wildly The wind has gone, and Broken are The spider’s spanning Webs – is that how we are to be? |
Sagami
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Composed for the Imperial Palace Poetry Competition in the Fourth Year of Eishō [1049].
いつとなく心空なるわが戀やふじの高嶺にかゝる白雲
| itu to naku kokoro sora naru wa ga koFi ya Fuzi no takane ni kakaru sirakumo |
Before I know it In my heart, sky-bound Is my love Above the high peak of Fuji Hanging with the clouds so white? |
Sagami
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Composed for another when [Ōe no] Yoshitoki left, having become Governor of Tsushima.
厭はしきわが命さへ行く人の歸らんまでと惜しくなりぬる
| itoFasiki wa ga inoti saFe yuku Fito no kaFeran made to wosiku narinuru |
Even the suffering That is my life, Until he, who leaves, Returns, will be All the more pitiable. |
Lady Sagami
Lord Minamoto no Yorikiyo, having completed his tour of duty in Michinoku province, was made Governor of Higo and left [the capital] again; when he was due to depart, she sent this to him secretly.
たびたびの千代をはるかに君や見ん末の松より生の松原
| tabitabi no tiyo wo Faruka ni kimi ya min suwe no matu yori iki no matubara |
Journey piled on journey At a distance of a thousand years Will you see? From the pines of Sue, To the living pine groves. |
Lady Sagami
Composed on autumn paddy fields at the poetry competition held at the house of the Tsuchimikado Minister of the Right [Minamoto no Morofusa (1008-1077)].
秋の田になみよる稻は山川の水引き植へし早苗なりけり
| aki no ta ni namiyoru ine Fa yama kaFa no midu Fiki uFesi sanaFe narikeri |
In these Autumn paddies Wave rows of rice: In mountain streamlets’ Waters planted; See what’s become of those seedlings! |
Lady Sagami