Love Waiting for Someone 待人恋
すみよしの松とは人のしらねばやなみうちたえてきしもせざらん
| sumiyoshi no matsu to wa hito no shiraneba ya nami uchitaete kishi mo sezaran | At Sumiyoshi are The pines of folk All unknowing? The waves have stopped, and Even the shore seems untouched. |
Tadafusa
住吉の松はあはれもかけやせむ八十過ぬる和歌の浦波
| sumiyoshi no matsu wa aware mo kake ya semu yasoji suginuru waka no uranami | At Sumiyoshi will The pines feel compassion For me? Spending more than eighty years Washed by the waves of Waka Bay… |
Judge
1201
和歌の浦のしるべとなれる老の浪げに住吉の松も知るらん
| waka no ura no shirube to nareru oi no nami geni sumiyoshi no matsu mo shiruran | To Waka Bay A guide have you become, Washed by waves of age; Truly, at Sumiyoshi The pines will know that well! |
A Servant Girl
1202
A poem composed by Prince Naga, on the occasion of a visit to the Naniwa Palace in Kyōun 3 [707].
霰打つ安良礼松原住吉の弟日娘女と見れど飽かぬかも
| arare utu ararematubara sumiyosi no otoiwotome to miredo akanu kamo |
Hail strikes Ararematsubara In Sumiyoshi A pleasure girl I see, yet cannot get my fill. |
Prince Naga (?-715)
長皇子
Composed on a pilgrimage to Sumiyoshi.
我問はば神世の事も答へなん昔を知れる住吉の松
| ware toFaba kamuyo no koto mo kotaFenan mukasi wo sireru sumiyosi no matu |
Were I to ask Of the Age of Gods Would you reply to me? You who know of ancient times, O, pines of Sumiyoshi! |
Egyō
住吉の岸野の榛ににほふれどにほはぬ我れやにほひて居らむ
| suminoe no kishino no hari ni niouredo niohanu ware ya nioiteoramu |
At Sumiyoshi, with Alder growing on the banks Is all dyed, yet Will I, as yet unmarked, Paint him with colour? |
Left (Tie).
我道をまもらば君をまもる覧よはひはゆづれ住吉の松
| wa ga michi o mamoraba kimi o mamoruran yowai wa yuzure sumiyoshi no matsu |
My path of poetry Should you ward, then my Lord Would you protect? Bequeath to him your years, O Pines of Sumiyoshi! |
197
Right (Tie).
契ありて今日宮河のゆふかづらながき世までにかけてたのまむ
| chigiri arite kyô miyagawa no yūkazura nagaki yo made ni kakete tanomamu |
Bonds from the past This day to Miyagawa take me; A garland, that I shall live for ages more, I’ll hang, and make my plea. |
198
Topic unknown.
うきながらひさしくぞよをすぎにける哀やかけしすみよしの松
| uki nagara hisashiku zo yo o suginikeru aware ya kakeshi sumiyoshi no matsu |
Painful it is, yet Long within this world Have I lived; Did you take pity on me, Pines of Sumiyoshi? |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari
藤原俊成
From the Poetry Contest in 1500 Rounds.
わがみちをまもらばきみをまもるらんよはひはゆづれすみよしの松
| wa ga michi o mamoraba kimi o mamoruran yowai wa yuzure sumiyoshi no matsu |
If my path They ward, my Lord They will protect, I’m sure; And give age as theirs’, The pines of Sumiyoshi. |
Sada’ie
定家
Composed in the conception of the moon over a shrine, at the same poetry competition.
ふりにける松物いはゞとひてまし昔もかくや住の江の月
| Furinikeru matu mono iFaba toFitemasi mukasi mo kaku ya sumi no e no tuki |
The ancient Pines-if only they could speak! For I would ask, Of old was it as bright: The moon on Sumiyoshi Bay? |
The Minister of the Right [Fujiwara no Sanesada]