Composed on summer rain for a poetry match, after the Thirty Day Sutra Recitation[1] held at the residence of the Uji Former Grand Minister[2] .
さみだれにみづのみまきのまこも草かりほすひまもあらじとぞおもふ
samidare ni In the summer rain
Sagami
Created with Soan . [1] The Thirty Day Sutra Recitation (Sanjikkō 三十講)was an event where the Sutra of Innumerable Meanings (Ananta Nirdeśa Sūtra ; Jp. Muryōgi-kyō 無量義経), the twenty-eight fascicles of the Lotus Sutra (Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram ; Jp. Hokke-kyō 法華経) and the Samantabhadra Meditation Sūtra (Jp. Kanfugen-kyō 観普賢経) were read aloud over thirty consecutive days, or occasionally over fifteen consecutive days with readings each morning and evening.
[2] Fujiwara no Yorimichi 藤原頼通 (992-1074)
三島江の刈りそめにだに真菰草ゆふても逢はぬ恋もするかな
misimae no At Mishima Bay
Toshitada
A wave breaking on a rocky shore.
三島江の入江の真菰雨降ればいとど萎れて刈る人もなし
misimae no
Upon Mishima Bay’s
Minamoto no Tsunenobu
Sad thoughts.
三島江の入江の薦を刈りにこそ我れをば君は思ひたりけれ
misimae no
At Mishima Bay
三島江の玉江の薦を標めしより己がとぞ思ふいまだ刈らねど
misimae no
At Mishima Bay’s
Left (Win).
yukusue no
In the future,
A Servant Girl .
Right.
musuban to
That we would be joined
Ietaka .
Both Left and Right state: there is no separation between man and woman.
In judgement: ‘Young shoot of wild rice at Yodo’ (yodo no wakagomo ) and ‘Ide’s jewelled waters’ (ide no tamamizu ) are both elegant in style, but the Left has pledged a more profound bond. The Right has ‘the slight reflection left’ (mada kage asaki ) and the Left is a poem about a vow which has been made. The Right is just referring to events of the past. Thus, ‘depth’ should win.
刈り残す水の真菰に隱ろへてかげもち顔に鳴く蛙かな
karinokosu
Unreaped remnants
Saigyō
This poem is also Sankashū 1018.
Composed on Spring Steeds.
眞菰草つのぐみわたる澤邊にはつながぬ駒もはなれざりけり
makomogusa
With wild rice
The Monk Shun’e
For a picture of Asaka Marsh, drawn on a screen in the Saishō Hall of the Four Heavenly Kings .
のべはいまだあさかのぬまにかるくさのかつ見るまゝにしげるころかな
nobe wa imada
Not yet in the fields, butmarsh of Asaka
Fujiwara no Masatsune (1170 – 1221)
Composed on samidare (drizzle).
世のほどにかりそめ人や來たりけむ淀の水こものけさみだれ たる
yo no Fodo nisa midare
In the midst of night
Izumi Shikibu
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