At the poetry competition held at the house of the Regent and Grand Minister.
なびかじなあまのもしほびたきそめてけぶりはそらにくゆりわぶとも
| nabikaji na ama no moshiobi takisomete keburi wa sora ni kuyuri wabu tomo |
She has not so much as waved to me, yet The fisher-folk salt fires Have begun to kindle and The smoke into the skies Has yet to rise… |
Fujiwara no Sada’ie
藤原定家
消えはてて煙は空にかすむとも雲のけしきを我としらじな
| kiehatete keburi wa sora ni kasumu tomo kumo no keshiki o ware to shiraji na | All but gone, The smoke across the sky Is hazed, yet In the vista of the clouds, You would not know ’tis I. |
211
In reply:
かすめよな思ひ消えなむ煙にもたちおくれてはくゆらざらまし
| kasumeyo na omoi kienamu keburi ni mo tachiokurete wa kuyurazaramashi | O, let it be hazed! Should I from love’s fires, and In smoke Drift away, I would not want to waver! |
212
When he was going toward the eastlands, he saw the smoke rising over Asama and composed:
しなのなるあさまのたけに立けぶりをちこち人のみやはとがめね
| shinano naru asama no take ni tatsu keburi ochikochi hito no mi ya wa togamene |
In Shinano From the high peak of Asama Smoke rises; The folk about See, yet find no fault, I wonder why… |
Ariwara no Narihira
在原業平
At a time when she was saddened by the fleeting nature of the world while looking at some pictures of named places in Michinoku.
見し人のけぶりになりしゆふべより名ぞむつましきしほがまのうら
| mishi hito no keburi ni narishi yûbe yori na zo mutsumashiki shiogama no ura | Him, I saw, Turn into smoke, and Since that evening, Even the name fills me with fond thoughts: The bay at Shiogama. |
Murasaki Shikibu
紫式部
In the Tenth Month, when He was in Minase, He sent to Former Archbishop Jien saying He had been ‘soaked by the showers’ or some such; in the Godless Month of the following year, among a great number of undistinguished poems, He sent this.
おもひいづるおりたくしばのゆふけぶりむせぶもうれし忘がたみに
| omoiizuru ori taku shiba no yûkeburi musebu mo ureshi wasuregatami ni |
Remembering her, Snapped kindling Smoke in the evening Chokes me-happy For I can never forget her. |
The Senior Retired Emperor [Gotoba]
後鳥羽