ゆく末のちとせをこめて春霞たつたの山に松風ぞふく
yukusue no chitose o komete harugasumi tatsuta no yama ni matsukaze zo fuku The future for A thousand years contained within The haze of spring: On the mount of Tatsuta The wind blows through the pines![i]
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[i] See: Topic unknown. ゆかむ人こん人しのべ春がすみたつたの山のはつさくら花 yukamu hito / kon hito shinobi / harugasumi / tatsuta no yama no / hatsu sakurabana ‘Folk who go / And those who come, secretly do dwell upon / The haze of spring / Over Mount Tatsuta’s / First flowering cherry blossoms.’ Middle Counsellor Yakamochi (Shinkokinshū I: 85 )
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.
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For a folding screen showing a pilgrimage to Kamo.
たちよれば衣手すずしみたらしやかげみるきしの春の川波
tachiyoreba koromode suzushi mitarashi ya kage miru kishi no haru no kawanami Standing there How cool their sleeves At Mitarashi, Seeing their reflection from the bank Amidst the river-waves of spring.
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春雨はいたくなふりそ旅人の道ゆきごろもぬれもこそすれ
harusame wa itaku na furi so tabibito no michiyuki goromo nure mo koso sure O, rains of spring Don’t fall so hard! For this traveller’s Roadside robes Will surely end up drenched![i]
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[i] See: Topic unknown. 春雨はいたくなふりそ桜花まだみぬ人にちらまくもをし harusame wa / itaku na furi so / sakurabana / mada minu hito ni / chiramaku mo oshi ‘O, spring rains, / Fall not so hard! / The cherry blossom / Is yet unseen by folk who / Would regret its scattering’ Akahito (Shinkokinshū II: 110 )
春楊 葛山 発雲 立座 妹念
はるやなぎ かづらきやまに たつくもの たちてもゐても いもをしぞおもふ
paru yanagi kadurakiyama ni tatu kumo no tatite mo wite mo imo wo si zo omopu Spring willows Cap Kazuraki Mountain, where Clouds rise, but Rising or remaining My darling is ever in my thoughts
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
[One of] Six poems new poems to harmonise and follow those on plum blossom, when he was at Dazai.
民布由都芸 芳流波吉多礼登 烏梅能芳奈 君尓之安良祢婆 遠久人毛奈之
みふゆつぎ はるはきたれど うめのはな きみにしあらねば おくひともなし
mipuyu tugi paru pa kitaredo ume no pana kimi ni si araneba oku pito mo nasi After deep winter’s passing Spring has come, and yet The plum blossom Is not you, my love, so There’s no one to beckon me here…
Ōtomo no Fumimochi
打靡 春去来者 小竹之末丹 尾羽打触而 鶯鳴毛
うちなびく はるさりくれば しののうれに をはうちふれて うぐひすなくも
utinabiku paru sarikureba sino no ure ni wopa utipurete ugupisu naku mo When, trailing in, Comes spring, The leaf-tips of the arrow bamboo Brush against the wings and tail Of the singing warbler!
Left
はるのよのあかぬわかれのあかつきはちへのにしきをたつにざりける
haru no yo no akanu wakare no akatsuki wa chie no nishiki o tatsu ni zarikeru After a spring night, Unsatisfied, parting at The dawn, Sewn a thousandfold, the brocade Through which I go!
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Right
あけぬてふこゑもなみだももろともにうちいづるからにそでぞぬれける
akenu chō koe mo namida mo morotomo ni uchi’izuru kara ni sode zo nurekeru ‘Tis dawn, say Birdsongs and tears Both, Bursting out, so My sleeves are soaked!
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Left
うちさめてこひしきひとをおもふよはわがたましひもゆきてつげなん
uchisamete koishiki hito o omou yo wa wa ga tamashii mo yukite tsugenan Awaking when My darling girl Filled my thoughts all night, Even my soul Has gone to let her know!
15
Right
よはにおきてこひぞわびぬるはるのよはゆめにみえつるひとのなければ
yowa ni okite koi zo wabinuru haru no yo wa yume ni mietsuru hito no nakereba Arising at midnight, and Suffering love’s fire On a night in spring, For in my dreams I saw My girl, though she’s not here now…
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Left
ひとこひてぬるはるのよはしきたへのまくらながれてうきぬべきかな
hito koite nuru haru no yo wa shikitae no makura nagarete ukinubeki kana Loving her, and Sleeping on a night in spring, My mulberry cloth Pillow in the flow Simply floats away!
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Right
ねざめするわがしきたへはいけなれやつまなきをしとなかれこそすれ
nezamesuru wa ga shikitae wa ike nare ya tsuma naki oshi to nakare koso sure On waking Is my mulberry cloth A pond, by chance? For as a mandarin drake without his duck Do I surely cry!
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