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| Pinks | Silver grass | Karukaya | Maidenflowers |
| Orchids | Bush clover | Marlberry | Scarlet leaves |
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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… |
1
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! |
2
The grasses’ fragrance.
床夏の露うちはらふ宵ごとに草のかうつるわがたもとかな
tokonatsu no
tsuyu uchiharau
yoigoto ni
kusa no kōtsuru
wa ga tamoto kana | From the pinks
The dewdrops I do brush
Every single night, so
The grasses’ fragrance has
Shifted to my sleeves! |
Saemon
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.
咲きまじる色はいづれと分かねどもなほ常夏にしくものぞなき
sakimajiru
iro wa izure to
wakanedomo
nao tokonatsu ni
shiku mono zo naki | Between the blend of blossoming
Hues, there is
No telling, and yet
And yet, to the bedded pink
Here, nothing can compare! |
Sent to the grandfather, a man whose daughter had died, on seeing how fond he was of his grandchild.
いにしへの形見にこれや山賤の撫でゝおはせる常夏の花
inisFe no
katami ni kore ya
yamagatu no
nadete oFoseru
tokonatu no Fana |
Of times gone-by
Here is but a keepsake:
A woodsman’s
Carefully tended
Pink. |
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! |
'Simply moving and elegant'