Monkeys 猿
ゆふづくひさすや嵐の山もとに物わびしらにさるさけぶなり
yūzuku hi
sasu ya arashi no
yamamoto ni
monowabishira ni
saru sakebunari | The twilight sun
Shines around Arashi
Mountain’s foot where
So sorrowfully
The monkeys howl. |
Nakazane
Boats 船
なごかれよみずりもすまにかきつみてあからも袖の灘通る日ぞ
nagokare yo
mizuri mo suma ni
kakitsumite
akara mo sode no
natatōru hi zo | O, be calm!
The dyestuffs at Suma are
Gathered all together, and
The red hue on my sleeves is
The sun passing through these perilous seas! |
Toshiyori
Groves 原
道とほみ日も夕ぐれになりぬればそのはらまでとさしてこそゆけ
michi tōmi
hi mo yūgure ni
narinureba
sonohara made to
sashite koso yuke | My road is yet long, and
The sun toward twilight
Does go, so
Just as far as Sonohara
Let it still shine on! |
Daishin
Lakes 水海
タづくひえがたのうらのいりましに雲すばへしてみのもすすけぬ
yūzuku hi
egata no ura no
irimashi ni
kumo subaeshite
mino mo susukenu | The evening sun
Upon the beach-rimmed bay
Is setting, while
From the clouds a gentle rain does fall
Leaving sooty spots upon my raincoat. |
Toshiyori
Stars 星
日くるれば星をいただくかみにしもはらひもあへずおける霜かな
hi kurureba
hoshi o itadaku
kami ni shimo
harai mo aezu
okeru shimo kana | When the sun grows dim,
Spreading out the stars,
The gods most certainly
Will not sweep away
The fallen frost! |
Nakazane
Spring Sun
からころも春たちきぬとききしより日のうらうらとなりにけるかな
karakoromo
haru tachikinu to
kikishi yori
hi no uraura to
narinikeru kana | A Cathay robe,
Cut and sewn; spring has come –
Since I heard that
The sun has softly
Shone, indeed! |
Tadafusa
When she was asked to send something to the house of a man.
はる日さす藤のうら葉のうちとけて君し思はば我もたのまん
Faru Fi sasu
Fudi no uraba
utitokete
kimi si omoFaba
ware mo tanoman |
Spring sun shines on
The wisteria’s underleaves;
If kindly
You do think of me, then
I, too, will grant my trust. |
Anonymous
A spring poem, presented in a hundred poem sequence during the reign of former Emperor Sutoku.
若菜摘む袖とぞ見ゆるかすがのゝとぶひのゝべの雪のむらぎえ
wakana tsumu
sode to zo miyuru
kasugano no
tobu hi no nobe no
yuki no muragie |
Plucking fresh herbs,
Sleeves do I seem to see
On the plain at Kasuga,
Where the sun dances in the fields
On the patchy snow… |
Former Consultant Norinaga
Heat Haze
うち乱れすめるみ空の遊ぶ糸に天の川瀬のみつを日かはや
uchimidare
sumeru misora no
asobu ito
ama no kawase no
mitsu o hi ka wa ya |
Confusing
The clear skies is
The heat-haze:
The rapids of the river of heaven
Roused by the sun, perhaps? |
Akinaka
Composed on evening haze.
なごの海の霞のまよりながむれば入る日をあらふ沖つ白波
nago no umi no
kasumi no ma yori
nagamureba
iru hi o arau
oki tsu shiranami |
At the sea at Nago
Between the hazy gaps
I gaze:
Bathed by the setting sun
Are the whitecaps in the offing. |
The Gotokudaiji Minister of the Left
後徳大寺左大臣
[Fujiwara no Sanesada 藤原実定]
'Simply moving and elegant'