When I heard nothing more from a person who had vowed to go to see the scarlet leaves at Tonase with me.
うしろめたとくといそがで紅葉ばはとなせのたきのおちもこそすれ
| ushirometa tokuto isogade momijiba wa tonase no taki no ochi mo koso sure | How untrustworthy! You take care to make no haste, and The scarlet leaves At Tonase cataract, without a word Will surely fall! |
When various people went to view the scarlet leaves by the Ōi River in the Tenth Month.
大井河かはべのもみぢちらぬまはとなせのきしにながゐしぬべし
| ōigawa kawabe no momiji chiranu ma wa tonase no kishi ni nagainubeshi | On the Ōi River’s Riverside the scarlet leaves Have yet to scatter, so At Tonase’s bank I would linger long. |
戸無瀬河岩間に立たむ筏師や浪に濡れても暮を待つらん
| tonasegawa iwama ni tatamu ikadashi ya nami ni nuretemo kure o matsuran |
At the river Tonase Bursting from between the rocks The raftsman If he would be wet with waves Should surely wait for evening? |
Fujiwara no Toshinari
From ‘The Hundred Poem Sequence Composed at the House of the Minister of the Right’ (1172)