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! |
When he presented a Hundred Poem Sequence.
ひとりぬるやまどりのをのしだり尾にしもおきまよふとこの月影
hitori nuru
yamadori no o no
shidario ni
shimo okimayou
toko no tsukikage | Sleeping alone,
The mountain pheasant’s tail
Hangs down,
Mistaking for fallen frost
The moonlight on his bed.[i] |
Lord Fujiwara no Sada’ie
Created with Soan.
[i] An allusive variation on SIS XIII: 778.
'Simply moving and elegant'
