Sleet
冬さむみ風もとまらぬ山ざとにいとどみぞれぞふりまさりける
fuyu samumi kaze mo tomaranu yamazato ni itodo mizore zo furimasarikeru How cold the winter
Higo, from the Resisdence of the Kyōgoku Regent
霙降り曇れる冬の晴れずのみつきせぬものやまろが身のうさ
mizore furi
Sleet falling
Sone no Yoshitada
Sent to a woman at the beginning.
霜がれの冬野に立てるむら薄ほのめかさばや思ふ心を
simogare no
In frost-burned
Taira no Tsune’aki (?-1077)
冬草と見えし春野の小笹原弥生の雨に深緑なる
fuyu kusa to
A winter plant
Fujiwara no Nakazane
Composed on the conception of the beginning of winter at the time a hundred poem sequence was presented during the reign of Former Emperor Horikawa.
泉川水の水曲のふしづけに岩間の氷る冬は来にけり
idumigaFa
On the River Izumi
Fujiwara no Nakazane
妹が門入り泉川の常滑にみ雪残れりいまだ冬かも
imo ga kado
My darling’s door
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
From a hundred poem sequence.
葦の葉に隠れて住みし津の国の昆陽もあらはに冬は来にけり
asi no Fa ni
Among the reed fronds
Minamoto no Shigeyuki
Topic unknown.
あしひきの山地も知らず白樫の枝にも葉にも雪の降れれば
asiFiki no
The leg-wearying
Hitomaro
Composed on plovers for a poetry competition in Eishō 4 [1050].
佐保川の霧のあなたに鳴く千鳥聲は隔てぬ物にぞ有ける
saFogaFa no The River Sao:
The Horikawa Minister of the Right [Fujiwara no Yorimune]
Topic unknown.
思ひかね妹狩り行けば冬の夜の河風さむみ千鳥鳴くなり
omoFikane Unable to bear this love
Tsurayuki
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