A mountain home concealed by haze (霞隔山家)
Left
おぼつかなとなりもみえず成りにけり霞へだつる村雲のさと
obotsukana
tonari mo miezu
narinikeri
kasumi hedatsuru
muragumo no sato | All is hidden!
My neighbours invisible
Have become;
The hazes form a barrier in
This cloud-clustered hamlet… |
Kaya no Nuki
5
Right
春霞八重立ちぬれば尋ねゆく道もわかれずくらはしのさと
harugasumi
yae tachinureba
tazuneyuku
michi mo wakarezu
kurahashi no sato | The spring hazes
Arise eightfold, so
Though I go enquire
No one knows the way to
The estate at Kurahashi. |
Koretsune
6
Dwarf Bamboo 小篠
葉をしげみ道見えずとてやすらへばそよそよといふをざさ原かな
ha o shigemi
michi miezu tote
yasuraeba
soyosoyo to iu
ozasawara kana | So lush the leaves
My way is hidden, I think –
And when I take my ease a while
‘That’s right! That’s right!’ rustle
The dwarf bamboo groves! |
Kanemasa
While on the path across the Shiga Mountains, he met a large number of women, and later composed this and sent it to them.
あづさゆみはるの山辺をこえくれば道もさりあへず花ぞちりける
adusa yumi
Faru no yamabe o
koekureba
miti mo sariaFezu
Fana zo tirikeru |
A catalpa bow
When the springtime mountains
I traverse
I cannot pass along the way
So many flowers have fallen! |
Tsurayuki
'Simply moving and elegant'