なに事を待つとはなしに明けくれてことしもけふになりにけるかな
| nanigoto o matsu to wa nashi ni akekurete kotoshi mo kyō ni narinikeru kana | What is there To wait for? Nothing! Dawn, then dusk and The new year, too, today Has come! |
Minamoto no Kunizane
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Eikyū hyakushu 616
The Seventh Night 七夜
ちとせふる祝の松のつるの子はけふすをたちて七夜なりけり
| chitose furu iwai no matsu no tsuru no ko wa kyō su o tachite nanayo narikeri | Ageing for a thousand years, A celebratory pine is where A crane chick has Today made her nest and Reached her seventh night. |
Higo
Eikyū hyakushu 578
Katsura 桂
人しれずけふをしまつと風はやみかつらの枝を折りもよわらず
| hito shirezu kyō o shimatsu to kaze hayami katsura no eda o ori mo yowarazu | Unknown to all For today have I made ready – Amid the rushing wind The katsura branches will I break without hesitation! |
Toshiyori
Eikyū hyakushu 559
Temples 寺
有為の世はけふかあすかのかねの音をあはれいつまできかんとすらん
| ui no yo wa kyō ka asu ka no kane no oto o aware itsu made kikan to suran | In this mundane world Today and tomorrow, too, The bell tolls on – How long will its melancholy I continue to hear? |
Kanemasa
Eikyū hyakushu 7
New Year’s Day
もろ人の花見む春のはじめとや今日は思ひのひらけぬるかな
| morobito no hana mimu haru no hajime to ya kyō wa omoi no hirakenuru kana | For crowds of folk Does blossom viewing springtime Begin, I wonder? Today such thoughts Have opened up! |
Daishin
Eikyū hyakushu 6
New Year’s Day
よきことをますみの鏡今日見ればかねて千年のかげぞうかべる
| yoki koto o masumi no kagami kyō mireba kanete chitose no kage zo ukaberu | When pleasant things In the clearest of glasses Today I see, Already a thousand years’ Sights have floated there… |
Higo
Eikyū hyakushu 3
New Year’s Day
今日よりは我をもちゐの増鏡うれしきかげをうつしてぞ見む
| kyō yori wa ware o mochi’i no masukagami ureshiki kage o utsushite zo mimu | From today Holding me within shall This glass so clear A joyous face Reflected see! |
Toshiyori
Ietaka-kyō hyakuban jika’awase 2
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けふも猶雪はふりつつ春霞たてるやいづこ若菜つみてむ
| kyō mo nao yuki wa furitsutsu harugasumi tateru ya izuko wakana tsumitemu |
Still yet, today Is the snow falling; O, spring haze Where do you arise? For I would go and pluck fresh herbs! |
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In no hyakushu, shodo, Eighth Month Shōji 2 [September 1200]
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朝氷たがため分て此川のむかへの野べに若菜つむらん
| asagōri ta ga tame wakete kono kawa no mukae no nobe ni wakana tsumuran |
This film of morning ice: For who’s sake do I break it? On this river’s Yonder side within the fields Would I pluck fresh herbs… |
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Naidaijinke hyakushu, Ninth Month Kenpō 3 [October 1215]
Horikawa hyakushu 1130
下にのみ恋ひ渡りしを玉の緒の乱れて今日ぞ人に知らるる
| sita ni nomi koFiwatarisi wo tama no wo no midarete keFu zo Fito ni siraruru |
Simply hidden Has been my journey of love, and that My jewelled thread of live Is tangled today of all I would have her know! |
Fujiwara no Akinaka
藤原顕仲
Horikawa hyakushu 1125
思ひあまり今日言ひ出づる池水の深き心を人は知らなむ
| omoFi amari keFu iFi’iduru ikemidu no Fukaki kokoro wo Fito Fa siranamu |
The excess of my love Today has burst into speech, for The pondwater Depths of my heart, I would have her know! |
Fujiwara no Akisue
藤原顕季