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
mizu no makomo ni
kakuroete
kagemochigao ni
naku kawazu kana |
Unreaped remnants
Of wild rice in the water
Conceal
The contentedly
Croaking frogs! |
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
tuno gumiwataru
saFabe ni Fa
tunaganu koma mo
Fanarezarikeri |
With wild rice
Thrusting horns out
From the marshside
My untethered steed
Will not stray far… |
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
asaka no numa ni
karu kusa no
katsu miru mama ni
shigeru koro kana |
Not yet in the fields, but
At the marsh of Asaka
The stalks for reaping of
Wild rice – under my eyes
Grow lushly upwards now. |
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 ni
karisome Fito ya
kitarikemu
yodo no mikomo no
kesa midaretaru |
In the midst of night
Briefly, will someone
Come, I wonder?
In the pools the wild rice
Is disarrayed, this morning. |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部
Topic unknown.
かりこもの思ひみだれて我こふといもしるらめや人しつげずは
karikomo no
omoFi midarete
ware koFu to
imo sirurame ya
Fito situgezu Fa | As cut wild-rice
Are my scattered thoughts:
That I do love her,
I wonder, can she know,
With no one to tell her? |
Anonymous
'Simply moving and elegant'
