For a folding screen.
昨日までよそにおもひしあやめ草けふ我がやどの妻とみるかな
| kinoFu made yoso ni omoFisi ayamegusa keFu wa ga yado no tuma to miru kana | Until yesterday Distant did I think us, but As a sweet flag Today from my house’s Eaves, my wife I see! |
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
Maidenflowers
Left
なびくとや人はみるらんをみなへしおもふかたにぞかぜもふきける
| nabiku to ya hito wa miruran ominaeshi omou kata ni zo kaze mo fukikeru | ‘Are they trailing?’ Folk wonder at the sight of The maidenflowers, and As they thought The wind, too, was blowing… |
7
Right
おほかたののべなるよりはをみなへしねやのつまにてみるはまされり
| ōkata no nobe naru yori wa ominaeshi neya no tsuma nite miru wa masareri | So wide are The plains, but I’d rather A maidenflower— My wife in the bedchamber: Seeing her is better far! |
8
Left (Tie)
舟のうちにさしも浮きたる契までうらやむ程のえにこそ有けれ
| fune no uchi ni sashimo ukitaru chigiri made urayamu hodo no e ni koso arikere | Within a boat Such a brief Bond is formed; yet Do I envy it, I really do! |
Lord Ari’ie
1147
Right
その人と分きて待つらん妻よりもあはれは深き浪の上哉
| sono hito to wakite matsuran tsuma yori mo aware wa fukaki nami no ue kana | There is her, and My waiting Wife: Far fonder am I Upon the waves! |
Nobusada
1148
Left and Right state: neither has any fault.
In judgement: the configuration and diction of both poems sounds pleasant. I must make this a tie.
Sent to a man with whom she had conversed, when she had heard nothing from him for a long time.
萱葺きのこや忘らるるつまならむ久しく人の音づれもせぬ
| kayabuki no koya wasuraruru tuma naramu Fisasiku Fito no wotodure mo senu |
Is silver-grass the thatch for The ancient hut where a forgotten Wife does dwell? Long has it been With no word from you… |
Hizen, from the household of the Former Ise Virgin
前斎宮肥前
A poem composed on the day of a poetry gathering on the peak of Tsukuba.
鷲の住む 筑波の山の 裳羽服津の その津の上に 率ひて 娘子壮士の 行き集ひ かがふかがひに 人妻に 我も交らむ 我が妻に 人も言問へ この山 を うしはく神の 昔より 禁めぬわざぞ 今日のみは めぐしもな見そ 事もとがむな
| washi no sumu tukuba no yama no mopakitu no sono tu no upe ni adomopite wotome wotoko no yukitudopi kagapu kagapi ni pitoduma ni ware mo maziramu wa ga tuma ni pito mo koto tope kono yama o usipaku kami no mukasi yori isamenu waza zo kepu nomi pa megusi mo na mi so koto mo togamu na |
Where eagles dwell On the mount of Tsukuba, At Mowakitsu, From the landing, We all went together Men and women both Gathering together For a poetry meet; With another’s wife Did I consort; My own wife Did others woo; This mountain’s Ruling deity, Since days long gone, Has not forbade it; On this day, alone, We will find no misfortune; No words of blame! |
Takahashi no Mushimaro Collection