Love and Silver-grass.
まつ人はこぬものゆゑに花すすきほに出でてねたき恋もするかな
matsu hito wa
konu mono yue ni
hanasusuki
ho ni idete netaki
koi mo suru kana | The man I am awaiting
Has failed to come, so
As the silver-grass
Fronds emerge, jealously
Will I love on! |
534
秋はぎのはなののすすき露をおもみおのれしをれてほにや出でなん
akihagi no
hana no susuki
tsuyu o omomi
onore shiorete
ho ni ya idenan | Where the autumn bush clover
Blooms, silver grass,
Weighed down by dew
Droops of its own, but
Might, somehow, the fronds reveal… |
533
きかでただあらましものを夕づくよ人だのめなる荻のうは風
kikade tada
aramashi mono o
yūzukuyo
hitodanomenaru
ōgi no uwakaze | Simply not to hear it
Would have been better far, for
On a moonlit night
My expectations are lifted by
The breeze upon the silver grass… |
426
Left – Silver grass
花すすきはやくほにいでてうちなびきちとせのあきをまねけとぞ思ふ
hanasusuki
hayaku ho ni idete
uchinabiki
chitose no aki o
maneke to zo omou | The silver-grass
Swiftly into fronds emerges;
Trailing,
To a thousand years of autumns,
Beckon! Or so I feel… |
3
Right
(Missing)
Silver grass
Left (Tie)
はなすすきほにいづるをのはしらくものあさゐるとのみあやまたれけり
hanasusuki
ho ni izuru ono wa
shirakumo no
asa iru to nomi
ayamatarekeri | Silver grass
Fronds appear upon the plains
For clouds of white
Spreading through the morning, simply
Have I mistaken them. |
Ariwara no Suetaka
15
Right
はなすすきほのくれがたのつゆけきはうきよのなかをそよとしればか
hanasusuki
ho no kuregata no
tsuyukeki wa
ukiyo no naka o
soyo to shireba ka | The silver grass
Fronds at twilight
Are dew-drenched—
That this cruel world
Is so, I wonder if they know? |
Fujiwara no Aritoki
16
Frost on the plain
花すすきかれたる野べにおく霜のむすぼほれつつ冬はきにけり
hanasusuki
karetaru nobe ni
oku shimo no
musubōretsutsu
fuyu wa kinikeri | The fronds of silver grass
Have withered on the plain, where
Falling frost reveals
That ever-gloomy
Winter has come. |
我のみや侘しとはおもふ花すすきほにいづるやどの秋の夕暮
ware nomi ya
wabishi to wa omou
hanasususki
ho ni izuru yado no
aki no yūgure | Is it me, alone, who
Feels the loneliness of
Silver grass
Fronds emerging at my house
Of an autumn evening? |
Composed on the conception of evening.
たそがれに物おもひをれば我が宿の荻のはそよぎ秋風ぞふく
tasogare ni
mono’omoi oreba
wa ga yado no
ogi no ha soyogi
akikaze zo fuku | With the twilight
Gloom fills my thoughts, when
At my home
The silver grass frond rustle—
On blows the autumn wind! |
On seeing silver grass in the grounds at dawn.
朝ぼらけ荻のうへふく秋風にしたばおしなみ露ぞこぼるる
asaborake
ogi no ue fuku
akikaze ni
shitaba oshinami
tsuyu zo koboruru | Just as dawn is breaking
Over the silver grass blows
The autumn breeze—
All pressed down together, the lower fronds
Shed dewdrops. |
すむ人もなき宿なれど荻のはの露を尋ねて秋はきにけり
sumu hito mo
naki yado naredo
ogi no ha no
tsuyu o tazunete
aki wa kinikeri | Folk living at
This house are there none, yet
Of the silver-grass frond’s
Dewdrops enquire and find that
Autumn has arrived. |
'Simply moving and elegant'
