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SIS VIII: 449

When a large number of people had gone to Daikakuji and were composing on the old waterfall.

たきの糸はたえてひさしく成りぬれど名こそ流れて猶きこえけれ

taki no ito Fa
taete Fisasiku
narinuredo
na koso nagarete
naFo kikoekere
The cataract’s threads
Snapped so long
Ago, yet
Its name flows on and
Is yet heard.

Kintō, Captain of the Outer Palace Guards, Right Division

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

Teishi-in ominaeshi uta’awase 21

とこやまねふみわけてくしかはじとやおもふひてあきには

otokoyama
mine fumiwakete
naku shika wa
heji to ya omou
shiite aki ni wa
Upon Otoko Mountain’s
Peak treads
A belling stag:
I wonder, does he not wish
To have to endure the autumn?

41

ぐらやまねのもみぢばにをいとにてかおりけむるやしらずや

ogurayama
mine no momijiba
nani o ito ni
hete ka orikemu
shiru ya shirazu ya
On Ogura Mountain’s
Peak, the scarlet leaves
Somehow, as warp threads
Crossing, woven seem—
Who knows that? No one, I expect!

42

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 41

Left

我のみやあはれとおもはむきりぎりす鳴く夕かげのやまとなでしこ

ware nomi ya
aware to omowan
kirigirisu
naku yūkage no
yamato nadeshiko
Is it only I
Who loves it so?
Crickets
Chirping in the evening shadows
On the wild pinks.

Sosei

80[1]

Right

秋の野の草はいととはみえなくにおく白露の玉とつらなる

aki no no no
kusa wa ito to wa
mienaku ni
oku shiratsuyu no
tama to tsuranaru
In the autumn meadows
The grasses, threads
Do not appear to be, yet
The fallen silver dewdrop
Gems are strung upon them.

Tsurayuki
81


[1] Kokinshū IV: 244