Summer rain
五月雨は心あらなん雲間より出でくる月をまてばくるしも
samidare wa kokoro aranan kumoma yori idekuru tsuki o mateba kurushi mo O, summer rain,
Sweet flags
五月雨に水まさるらしあやめぐさうれ葉かくれてかる人のなき
samidare ni mizu masarurashi ayamegusa ureba kakurete karu hito no naki The summer rain has
郭公きけどもあかずたちばなの花ちる里の五月雨のころ
hototogisu kikedomo akazu tachibana no hana chiru sato no samidare no koro The cuckoo
五月雨の雲のかかれるまきもくのひばらが峰になくほととぎす
samidare no kumo no kakareru makimoku no hibara ga mine ni naku hototogisu Summer rain
五月雨の露もまだひぬ奥山のまきのはがくれなくほととぎす
samidare no tsuyu mo mada hinu okuyama no maki no hagakure naku hototogisu The summer rain’s
さみだれによの深けゆけばほととぎすひとり山辺を鳴きて過ぐなり
samidare ni yo no fukeyukeba hototogisu hitori yamabe o nakitesugu nari In the summer rain,
Composed on summer rain for a poetry match, after the Thirty Day Sutra Recitation[1] held at the residence of the Uji Former Grand Minister[2] .
さみだれにみづのみまきのまこも草かりほすひまもあらじとぞおもふ
samidare ni In the summer rain
Sagami
Created with Soan . [1] The Thirty Day Sutra Recitation (Sanjikkō 三十講)was an event where the Sutra of Innumerable Meanings (Ananta Nirdeśa Sūtra ; Jp. Muryōgi-kyō 無量義経), the twenty-eight fascicles of the Lotus Sutra (Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram ; Jp. Hokke-kyō 法華経) and the Samantabhadra Meditation Sūtra (Jp. Kanfugen-kyō 観普賢経) were read aloud over thirty consecutive days, or occasionally over fifteen consecutive days with readings each morning and evening.
[2] Fujiwara no Yorimichi 藤原頼通 (992-1074)
Fireflies
五月雨に草のいほりはくづれども蛍と成るぞうれしかりける
samidare ni In the early summer rain
Ōe no Masafusa
もがみがははやくぞまさる天雲ののぼれはくだる五月雨のころ
mogamigawa
The River Mogami
Yoshida Kenkō
'Simply moving and elegant'
