春たてば雪げの水やぬるからん先もえ出づる下蕨かな
| haru tateba yukige no mizu ya nurukaran mazu moe’izuru sawarabi kana | When spring has risen, is it that The snow-touched waters are But a trickle, that First smoulders into bud Fresh bracken? |
[Minamoto no] Akinaka 顕仲
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Horikawa hyakushu 135
Reikeiden no nyōgo uta’awase 01
Poetry Match held by the Reikeiden Junior Consort
Poems matched by the retainers of the Reikeiden Junior Consort, around the Third Month, Tenryaku 10.
Haze
Left (Tie)
あさひさすみねのしらゆきむらぎえてはるのかすみはたなびきにけり
| asahi sasu mine no shirayuki muragiete haru no kasumi wa tanabikinikeri | Morning sun shines upon The snow upon the peak, so white, All vanishing with The haze of spring A’trailing. |
Kanemori
1
Right
みよしのはゆきふりやまずさむけれどかすみぞはるのしるべなりける
| miyoshino wa yuki furiyamazu samukeredo kasumi zo haru no shirube narikeru | In fair Yoshino, where Never does the snow stop falling, ‘Tis cold, yet Haze of spring Is a sign. |
2
Kinkai wakashū 637
Kinkai wakashū 636
Snow at a shrine.
年つもるこしの白山しらずともかしらの雪をあはれとはみよ
| toshi tsumoru koshi no shirayama shirazu tomo kashira no yuki o aware to wa miyo | How years has it drifted upon The mountains white at Shirayama in Koshi I know not, but The snow above my brow, O, behold with pity![i] |
636
[i] See: Composed at Hiroshi Marōdo Shrine, recalling a visit to Shirayama, when he was Governnor of Kaga. としふともこしの白山わすれずはかしらのゆきをあはれともみよ toshi futomo / koshi no shirayama / wasurezu wa / kashira no yuki o / aware tomo miyo ‘The years have passed, yet / The mountains white at Shirayama in Koshi / Never will I forget! So, / The snow above my brow, / O, behold with pity!’ Master of the Left Capital Office Akisuke (Shinkokinshū XIX: 1912)
SKKS XIX: 1912
Composed at Hiroshi Marōdo Shrine, recalling a visit to Shirayama, when he was Governnor of Kaga.
としふともこしの白山わすれずはかしらのゆきをあはれともみよ
| toshi futomo koshi no shirayama wasurezu wa kashira no yuki o aware tomo miyo | The years have passed, yet The mountains white at Shirayama in Koshi Never will I forget! So, The snow above my brow, O, behold with pity! |
Master of the Left Capital Office Akisuke
GSS I: 26
Kinkai wakashū 632
Snow between the pines.
雪つもるわかの松ばらふりにけりいく世へぬらん玉つしまもり
| yuki tsumoru waka no matsubara furinikeri ikuyo henuran tamatsushimamori | Snow has drifted between Waka’s pine groves[i]— Grown so ancient— How many ages have you passed, O, Warden of Tamatsu Isle[ii]?[iii] |
632
[i] The ‘pine groves of Waka’ (waka no matsubara 和歌の松原) were located in Ise, but Sanetomo mistakenly associates them with Waka Bay (waka no ura 和歌浦) in Kii—hence his reference to Tamatsushima in the poem.
[ii] In this context, ‘Tamatsu Isle’ (Tamatsushima 玉津島) is understood as referring to Tamatsushima Shrine which is located near the coast in Wakayama. One of the deities venerated at this shrine is Sōtorihime-no-mikoto 衣通姫尊, one of the patron gods of waka poetry, which Sanetomo evokes with his reference the ‘pine groves of Waka’.
[iii] See: Kokinshū XVII: 905.
