かみまつるやどの卯の花白妙のみてぐらかとぞあやまたれける
| kami maturu yado no unoFana sirotaFe no mitegura ka to zo ayamatarekeru | Sacred to the Gods, A dwelling’s deutzia, for White as mulberry cloth, Sacred streamers might Be mistaken! |
Tsurayuki
Tag Archives: yado
SIS II: 84
Poems for a folding screen for His Majesty, former Emperor En’yū.
住吉の岸のふぢなみわがやどの松のこずゑに色はまさらじ
| sumiyosi no kisi no Fudinami wa ga yado no matu no kozuwe ni iro wa masarazi | On Sumiyoshi’s Shore are wisteria waves, but Those at my house, In the treetops of the pines Are not less superb in hue… |
Taira no Kanemori
SIS II: 80
SIS XVI: 1015
When various people had come to see the blossom blooming beautifully at his mountain retreat in Kitashirakawa.
春きてぞ人もとひける山ざとは花こそやどのあるじなりけれ
| Faru kite zo Fito mo toFikeru yamazato Fa Fana koso yado no aruzi narikere | Spring has come, and Folk visiting, too, My mountain retreat: The blossoms are the dwelling’s Master, to be sure! |
Kintō, Captain of the Outer Palace Guards, Right Division
FGS XIV: 1442
KKS XV: 811
Kinkai wakashū 677
A poem for the year in which the Great Thanksgiving Service was held.[i]
くろきもて君がつくれる宿なれば万代ふともふりずも有りなん
| kuroki mote kimi ga tsukureru yado nareba yorozuyo futomo furizu mo arinan | With barken logs For my Lord constructed is This hall, so Even when ten-thousand ages pass, Ageless shall it be![ii] |
677
[i] The ‘Great Thanksgiving Service’ (dajiōe 大嘗会) was a special version of the ‘First Fruits Service’ (niiamesai 新嘗祭) held in the first year after the accession of the new emperor to the throne (see McAuley (2020, 1111) for more details). The ceremony Sanetomo is referring to here was conducted in 1212, following the accession of Emperor Juntoku 順徳 (1197-1242; r. 1210-1221) (Juntoku formally took the throne on the 25th day of the Eleventh Month, Jōgen 承元 4 [12.12.1210], and was enthroned on the 28th day of the Twelfth Month of the same year [14.1.1211]. His Great Thanksgiving Service was held on the 13th day of the Eleventh Month, Kenryaku 建暦 2 [7.12.1212])
[ii] See: A poem by Her Majesty, the Senior Retired Empress. 波太須珠寸 尾花逆葺 黒木用 造有室者 迄万代 hadasusuki / obana sakafuki / kuroki mochi / tsukureru muro wa / yorozuyo made ni ‘Still a’bud / The silver grass, reverse-thatched, / Upon the barken logs: / Thus constructed is this hall, / To stand until ten thousand ages pass!’ Empress Genshō (Man’yōshū VIII: 1637)
Kinkai wakashū 670
SIS XX: 1276
Kinkai wakashū 667
あひおひの袖のふれにしやどの竹よよはへにけりわがともとして
| ai’oi no sode no furenishi yado no take yoyo wa henikeri wa ga tomo toshite | Growing together, Brushing my sleeves, The bamboo at my house Has passed through the ages— My friend, it is.[i] |
667
[i] See: 晋騎兵参軍王子猷 栽称此君 唐太子賓客白楽天 愛為吾友 shin no kihei sangun ōshi iu / uete kono kimi to shōsu / tō no Taishi hinkaku hakurakuten / aishite wa ga tomo to su ‘In Chin times, Administrator for Cavalry Wang Tzu-yu / Planted it and called it “This Gentleman.” / In T’ang times, Adviser to the Heir Apparent Po Lo-t’ien / loved it as being “my friend.”’ (Rimer and Chaves 1997, 132) Fujiwara no Atsumochi (Wakan rōeishū II: 432); and: When His Majesty was yet a prince and had paid a visit to the Toba Palace to converse the Hachijō’in Princess, Her Highness recited, ‘The bamboo has been my friend these many years,’ so His Majesty composed a poem [along with others present]. わが友と君がみかきのくれ竹は千代にいく世のかげをそふらん wa ga tomo to / kimi ga migaki no / kuretake wa / chiyo ni ikuyo no / kage o souran ‘As “my friend” does / My Lady see, by her fence / Black bamboo— / Its thousand knots o’er how many ages / To her will show their shape?’ Master of the Dowager Empress Household Office, Toshinari (Senzaishū X: 608).