Around the Third month, I went hawking in Ōhara, and stopped on the way in a place where the cherry blossom was most beautiful; the following day I sent this to the Provisional Minor Captain .
きゞすなく大原山の櫻花かりにはあらでしばし見しかな
kigisu naku
Pheasants cried
Composed at Emperor Kazan’s poetry competition :
のどかにも頼まるゝかなちりたゝぬ花の都の櫻とおもへば
nodoka ni mo
O, for this peace and calm
Late blooming blossom.
夏山の風こそにほへ蝉の羽のうすはな櫻けふや咲くらん
natsu yama no
From the summer mountains
Blossom
木のもとにきてだに雲にまがひけるなにを櫻とよそにみつらん
ki no moto ni
Beneath the trees
A colt in Springtime
つながれぬ春の心と櫻麻のをふの下草駒いばふなり
tsunagarenu
Untethered is the
散花に瀬ゝの岩間やせかるらん櫻に出づる春の山川
chiru hana ni
Have the drifting blossoms
春雨も花のとだえぞ袖にもる櫻つゞきの山の下道
harusame mo
The spring rain falls
をのれのみあふか春ぞと思ふにも峰の櫻の色ぞ物憂き
onore nomi
Am I alone
On the conception of falling flowers.
春ごとにおなじ櫻の花なれば惜しむ心もかはらざりけり
Faru goto nisakura no
Each and every spring
The Mother of Lord Nagazane
隣から氣毒がるや遲ざくら
tonari karazakura
From next door come
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