For a folding screen in the residence of the Fourth Princess, during the reign of the Engi Emperor.
流れくる紅葉ば見ればからにしき滝の糸してをれるなりけり
| nagarekuru momidiba mireba karanisiki taki no ito site woreru narikeri | Flowing along, When the scarlet leaves I see, Cathay brocade With a waterfall for threads Woven, they are. |
Tsurayuki
Composed at the Poetry Match held at the Residence of the Uji Former Grand Minister.
山ざくらさきそめしより久かたの雲井にみゆるたきのしらいと
| yamazakura sakisomeshi yori hisakata no kumoi ni miyuru taki no shira’ito | Since the mountain cherries Have begun to bloom, The eternal Clouds seem Threaded with a waterfall of white. |
Lord Minamoto no Toshiyori
Sent when the Hōjōji Lay Priest and Former Regent was in seclusion at the Kiyomizu Temple.
滝のおともいかがきくらん都だにものあはれなる比にも有るかな
| taki no oto mo ikaga kikuran miyako dani mono’aware naru koro ni mo aru kana | The waterfall’s sound: Do you hear it, I wonder? Even in the capital My heart is moved At this time, too! |
Former Emperor Kazan
花山院御製
Spring
Round 1
Left
やま風にとくる氷のひまごとにうち出づる浪や春の初花
| yamakaze ni tokuru kōri no hima goto ni uchi’izuru nami ya haru no hatsuhana | With the mountain breeze The melting ice from Every crack Bursts out in waves, perhaps These are the first blooms of spring? |
Minamoto no Maszumi
1[1]
Right (Win)
春霞たつひの風のいとなれや滝のをとけて玉とみだるる
| harugasumi tatsu hi no kaze no ito nare ya taki no o tokete tama to midaruru | The haze of spring Arises with the breeze this day, so Will its streamers with The melting waterfall’s threaded Jewels become confused? |
2
[1] Kokin rokujo I: 5
