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MYS V: 839

波流能努尓 紀理多知和多利 布流由岐得 比得能美流麻提 烏梅能波奈知流

春の野に霧立ちわたり降る雪と人の見るまで梅の花散る

paru no no ni
kiri tatiwatari
puru yuki to
pito no miru made
ume no pana tiru
In the springtime meadows
Filled with spreading mist,
As falling snow
To folk’s eyes appears
The scattering plum blossom.

Denshi no Makami, Clerk of Chikuzen
筑前目田氏真上

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 3

Left 梅のはなしるきかならでうつろはば雪降りやまぬ春とこそ見め

ume no hana
shiru ki ka narade
utsurowaba
yuki furiyamanu
haru to koso mime
Of the plum blossom
Is this tree not aware, so
If it fades
An endless snowfall
Will seem to mark this spring.

5

Right

春の日に霞わけつつとぶ雁の見えみみえずみ雲がくれ行く

haru no hi ni
kasumi waketsutsu
tobu kari no
mie mi miezu mi
kumogakureyuku
The springtime sun
Keeps breaking through the haze, so
The geese, winging,
Appear and are lost to view
Vanishing within the clouds.

6

Shiki koi sanshu uta’awase – Winter

Winter

Left

冬くれば紅葉ふりしく神無月佐保の山辺はむべもりぬらん

fuyu kureba
momiji furishiku
kaminazuki
saho no yamabe wa
mube morinuran
When the winter comes,
Scarlet leaves, falling and scattering
In the Godless Month,
Upon the slopes of Mount Saho,
Indeed, are at their finest.

19

冬ごもりかれてみゆらん梅がえは今はた花の春はにほはん

fuyugomori
karete miyuran
ume ga e wa
ima hata hana no
haru wa niowan
Sealed in winter, and
All withered seeming,
The plum tree’s branches,
Now, for sure, the blossoms’
Spring will scent.

20

冬みれば水もまかせぬ小山田にいつすき返し種をまきけん

fuyu mireba
mizu mo makasenu
oyamada ni
itsu sukikaeshi
tane o makiken
‘Tis winter, I see, so
There’s no water to draw for
The little mountain paddies:
O, when might I till them, and
Sow my seeds, I wonder?

21

Right

時雨降る宿にすまへば冬の夜に錦とみゆる木木の花かな

shigure furu
yado ni sumaeba
fuyu no yo ni
nishiki to miyuru
kigi no hana kana
Showers fall
Upon the house where I do dwell, so
Upon a winter’s night
As brocade do seem
The blossoming trees!

22

ゆふだすき神の社にかけつればしもし降るにもたのもしきかな

yūdasuki
kami no yashiro ni
kaketsureba
shimo shi furu ni mo
tanomashiki kana
Sacred mulberry cords
Around the God’s shrine
Are hung, so
Even amidst the frost fall,
The future does seem bright!

23

白雲のふたへふりしくときは山うらはへとしはみどりなりけれ

shiragumo no
futae furishiku
tokiwa yama
ura hae toshi wa
midori narikere
Clouds of white
Lie scattered, twofold, upon
The unchanging mountain:
Stretching out behind, the year
Is simply green.

24

Uhyōe shōjō sadafumi uta’awase 1

The warm feeling of spring enveloped by smoke (春気籠煙暖)

Left (Win)

梅の花雪にみゆれど春の気はけぶりをこめて寒からなくに

ume no Fana
yuki ni miyuredo
Faru no ki Fa
keburi wo komete
samurakanaku ni
The plum blossom
Seems like snow, yet
The sense of spring
Is surrounded with such smoke
I feel no chill…

Anonymous
1

Right

咲く花のひかりにもゆる春のきはけぶりをこめて晴れずぞ有りける

saku Fana no
Fikari ni moyuru
Faru no ki Fa
keburi wo komete
Farezu zo arikeru
The blooming blossom
Burning a’glow is
The sense of spring;
Surrounded by smoke that
Never clears…

Anonymous
2[1]


[1]These poems are included in Fubokushō (I: 92) and (I: 93).

KKS I: 40

On a moonlit night, when someone said they were going to pick plum blossoms, he composed this to say, ‘Pluck them.’

月夜にはそれとも見えず梅花香をたづねてぞしるべかりける

tukiyo ni Fa
sore to mo miezu
ume no Fana
ka wo tadunete zo
sirubekarikeru
On a moonlit night
Indistinguishable is
The plum blossom –
By scent, then seek it,
And you shall know it well.

Mitsune