Left – Pinks
もも草のときにつけつつさく中にいつともわかぬとこ夏の花
| momokusa no toki ni tsuketsutsu saku naka ni itsu tomo wakanu tokonatsu no hana | A hundred grasses Always with the season Bloom and among them Ever inseparable are The flowering pinks. |
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Right
よろづよにぬるとこなつの花なればうつろふ秋もまたれざりけり
| yorozuyo ni nuru tokonatsu no hana nareba utsurou aki mo matarezarikeri | For ten thousand ages Have slept abed the pinks In bloom, so For the autumn when they fade They have no need to wait! |
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Topics
| Pinks | Silver grass | Karukaya | Maidenflowers |
| Orchids | Bush clover | Marlberry | Scarlet leaves |
| Bamboo | Asters | Evergreens | Gentian |
Poetry Match
Pinks
Left
あきののの花はさきつつうつろへどいつともわかぬやどのとこ夏
| aki no no no hana wa sakitsutsu utsuroedo itsu to mo wakanu yado no tokonatsu | In the autumn meadows, The flowers ever bloom, then Fade away, yet Never will that happen to The pink where I do dwell… |
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Right
秋ののをみるよりも又あしひきの山となでしこさきにけるかな
| aki no no o miru yori mo mata ashihiki no yamato nadeshiko sakinikeru kana | Upon the autumn meadows I gaze—but better yet that In the leg-wearying Mountains of Yamato a pink Has bloomed! |
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うち払ふ袖も露けき常夏にあらし吹きそふ秋も来にけり
| uchiharau sode mo tsuyukeki tokonatsu ni arashi fukisou aki mo kinikeri | Swept clean My sleeves still are drenched with dew; Upon the pink A storm wind blew, and Brought autumn with it! |
An allusive variation on KKS III: 167.
At a time when I confined as a result of many observances, and I found myself unable to keep calm for thinking of her:
もろともに起き伏し物を思ふともいざ常夏の露となりけむ
| morotomo ni okiFusi mono wo omoFu tomo iza tokonatu no tuyu to narikemu |
Both Awake and abed Are you in my thoughts; Look! Well-bedded pinks: Dewfall upon them should we be! |