Sages’ Dwellings 仙宮
いかにかく山ぢをいづる時のまにみし人もなくとしのへぬらん
| ika ni kaku yamaji o izuru toki no ma ni mishi hito mo naku toshi no henuran | How is it that Departing on mountain paths For but a brief space of time Without someone known so well Makes it seem that years have passed? |
Akinaka
Love on Parting 別恋
わかれにし人を恋ぢにまよふかないつをあひみん時ぞともなく
| wakarenishi hito o koiji ni mayou kana itsu o aimin toki zo tomo naku | That one who left me On the paths of love Must have lost his way! That time when we’ll meet Once more never will arrive… |
Higo
On thinking sad thoughts.
古衣打棄つる人は秋風の立ちくる時に物思ふものぞ
| purugoromo ututuru pito pa akikaze no tatikuru toki ni mono’omopu mono zo |
As a worn-out robe Did he abandon me; Now the autumn wind’s Time to rise has come Sunk is he in sorry thought! |
In reply.
程経てや月もうかばむ大原や朧の清水すむ名ばかりに
| Fodo Fete ya tuki mo ukabamu oFoFara ya oboro no simidu sumu na bakari |
Does time pass With the drifting moon? At Ōhara The misty spring waters Are clear in name alone. |
Ryōzen
良暹
When the house of Bishop Mokuban burnt down, I sent a message, with this, to his mother.
出でにける門のほかをし知らぬ身は問ふべき程もさたすきにけり
| idenikeru kado no Foka wo si siranu mi Fa toFubeki Fodo mo sada suginikeri |
Departed Through that other gate have you, while In ignorance, I, When I should have known, Have passed my time. |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部