A New Year’s Day poem, composed on the Hie shrine.
さゞなみやしがのはまゝつふりにけりたがよにひけるねの日なるらん
| sazanami ya shiga no hamamatsu furinikeri ta ga yo ni hikeru ne no hi naruran |
Where the wavelets strike On Shiga beach the pine trees Have grown old; Whose reign might have seen you plucked On a new year’s day, I wonder. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成
During the reign of Retired Emperor Horikawa, when he offered a hundred poem sequence, he composed this in the conception of the beginning of Spring.
こほりゐし志賀の唐崎うちとけてさゞ波よする春風ぞふく
| koFori wisi siga no karasaki utitokete sazanami yosuru Faru kaze zo Fuku |
Once ice-locked, Around Kara Cape in Shiga There is a melting and The wavelets lap With the blowing breeze of Spring. |
Minister of the Treasury [Ōe no] Masafusa
Composed at the Shiga mountain pass.
山河に風のかけたるしがらみは流れもあへぬ紅葉なりけり
| yamagaFa ni kaze no kaketaru sigarami Fa nagare mo aFenu momidi narikeri |
Upon this mountain stream Has the wind placed A dam, Unmoved by the current, Of scarlet leaves. |
Harumichi no Tsuraki