21/01/2008

Fujiwara no Teika

Hyakunin Isshu

Translated by Clay MacCauley (1917)

Table of Content

About this Anthology

1 Tenchi Tenno

2 Jito Tenno

3 Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

4 Yamabe no Akahito

5 Sarumaru Dayu

6 Chunagon Yakamochi

7 Abe no Nakamaro

8 Kisen Hoshi

9 Ono no Komachi

10 Semimaru

11 Sangi Takamura

12 Sojo Henjo

13 Yozei In

14 Kawara no Sadaijin

15 Koko Tenno

16 Chunagon Yukihira

17 Ariwara no Narihira Ason

18 Fujiwara no Toshiyuki Ason

19 Ise

20 Motoyoshi Shinno

21 Sosei Hoshi

22 Fun’ya no Yasuhide

23 Oe no Chisato

24 Kan Ke

25 Sanjo Udaijin

26 Teishin Ko

27 Chunagon Kanesuke

28 Minamoto no Muneyuki Ason

29 Oshikochi no Mitsune

30 Mibu no Tadamine

31 Sakanoue no Korenori

32 Harumichi no Tsuraki

33 Ki no Tomonori

34 Fujiwara no Okikaze

35 Ki no Tsurayuki

36 Kiyohara no Fukayabu

37 Fun’ya no Asayasu

38 Ukon

39 Sangi Hitoshi

40 Taira no Kanemori

41 Mibu no Tadami

42 Kiyohara no Motosuke

43 Chunagon Atsutada

44 Chunagon Asatada

45 Kentoku Ko

46 Sone no Yoshitada

47 Egyo Hoshi

48 Minamoto no Shigeyuki

49 Onakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason

50 Fujiwara no Yoshitaka

51 Fujiwara no Sanekata Ason

52 Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason

53 Udaisho Michitsuna no Haha

54 Gido Sanshi no Haha

55 Dainagon Kinto

56 Izumi Shikibu

57 Murasaki Shikibu

58 Daini no Sanmi

59 Akazome Emon

60 Koshikibu no Naishi

61 Ise no Osuke

62 Sei Shonagon

63 Sakyo no Daibu Michimasa

64 GonChunagon Sadayori

65 Sagami

66 Saki no Daisojo Gyoson

67 Suo no Naishi

68 Sanjo In

69 Noin Hoshi

70 Ryosen Hoshi

71 Dainagon Tsunenobu

72 Yushi Naishinno-ke no Kii

73 GonChunagon Masafusa

74 Minamoto no Toshiyori Ason

75 Fujiwara no Mototoshi

76 Hoshoji no Nyudo Saki no Kanpaku Dajodaijin

77 Sutoku In

78 Minamoto no Kanemasa

79 Sakyo no Daibu Akisuke

80 Taiken Moin no Horikawa

81 Go Tokudaiji no Sadaijin

82 Doin Hoshi

83 Kotaigogu no Daibu Toshinari

84 Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Ason

85 Shun’e Hoshi

86 Saigyo Hoshi

87 Jakuren Hoshi

88 Koka Moin no Betto

89 Shokushi Naishinno

90 Inpu Moin no Taifu

91 Go Kyogoku no Sessho Saki no Dajodaijin

92 Nijo In no Sanuki

93 Kamakura no Udaijin

94 Sangi Masatsune

95 Daisojo Jien

96 Nyudo Saki no Dajodaijin

97 GonChunagon Sadaie

98 Junii Ietaka

99 Gotoba In

100 Juntoku In

About this Anthology

Hyakunin Isshu is an anthology of 100 waka poems by 100 different poets; it was assembled by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241; also known as Sadaie Fujiwara).

The titles are the names of each poet, followed by the Japanese poem in Romaji transliteration, then the English translation.

Source:

Hyakunin-isshu (Single songs of a hundred poets) and Nori no hatsu-ne (The dominant note of the law), edited by Sadaie Fujiwara, translated into English by Clay MacCauley. Published in Yokohama, Shanghai by Kelly and Walsh, Ltd. 1917. OCLC 10905811

1 Tenchi Tenno

Aki no ta no

Kariho no io no

Toma o arami

Waga koromode wa

Tsuyu ni nure tsutsu

Emperor Tenchi

Coarse the rush-mat roof

Sheltering the harvest-hut

Of the autumn rice-field;

And my sleeves are growing wet

With the moisture dripping through.

2 Jito Tenno

Haru sugite

Natsu ki ni kerashi

Shirotae no

Koromo hosu cho

Ama no Kaguyama

Empress Jito

The spring has passed

And the summer come again;

For the silk-white robes,

So they say, are spread to dry

On the “Mount of Heaven’s Perfume.”

3 Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

Ashibiki no

Yamadori no o no

Shidari o no

Naganagashi yo o

Hitori ka mo nen

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

Oh, the foot-drawn trail

Of the mountain-pheasant’s tail

Drooped like down-curved branch!

Through this long, long-dragging night

Must I lie in bed alone?

4 Yamabe no Akahito

Tago no Ura ni

Uchi idete mireba

Shirotae no

Fuji no takane ni

Yuki wa furi tsutsu

Yamabe no Akahito

When I take the path

To Tago’s coast, I see

Perfect whiteness laid

On Mount Fuji’s lofty peak

By the drift of falling snow.

5 Sarumaru Dayu

Okuyama ni

Momiji fumiwake

Naku shika no

Koe kiku toki zo

Aki wa kanashiki

Sarumaru

In the mountain depths,

Treading through the crimson leaves,

The wandering stag calls.

When I hear the lonely cry,

Sad—how sad!—the autumn is.

6 Chunagon Yakamochi

Kasasagi no

Wataseru hashi ni

Oku shimo no

Shiroki o mireba

Yo zo fuke ni keru

Otomo no Yakamochi

If I see that bridge

That is spanned by flights of magpies

Across the arc of heaven

Made white with a deep-laid frost,

Then the night is almost past.

7 Abe no Nakamaro

Ama no hara

Furisake mireba

Kasuga naru

Mikasa no yama ni

Ideshi tsuki kamo

Abe no Nakamaro

When I look up at

The wide-stretched plain of heaven,

Is the moon the same

That rose on Mount Mikasa

In the land of Kasuga?

8 Kisen Hoshi

Waga io wa

Miyako no tatsumi

Shika zo sumu

Yo o Ujiyama to

Hito wa iu nari

The Monk Kisen

My lowly hut is

Southeast from the capital.

Thus I choose to live.

And the world in which I live

Men have named a “Mount of Gloom.”

9 Ono no Komachi

Hana no iro wa

Utsuri ni keri na

Itazura ni

Waga mi yo ni furu

Nagame seshi ma ni

Ono no Komachi

Color of the flower

Has already faded away,

While in idle thoughts

My life passes vainly by,

As I watch the long rains fall.

10 Semimaru

Kore ya kono

Yuku mo kaeru mo

Wakarete wa

Shiru mo shiranu mo

Osaka no seki

Semimaru

Truly, this is where

Travelers who go or come

Over parting ways—

Friends or strangers—all must meet:

The gate of “Meeting Hill.”

11 Sangi Takamura

Wata no hara

Yasoshima kakete

Kogi idenu to

Hito ni wa tsugeyo

Ama no tsuri bune

Ono no Takamura

Over the wide sea

Towards its many distant isles

My ship sets sail.

Will the fishing boats thronged here

Proclaim my journey to the world?

12 Sojo Henjo

Ama tsu kaze

Kumo no kayoiji

Fuki toji yo

Otome no sugata

Shibashi todomen

The Monk Henjo

Let the winds of heaven

Blow through the paths among the clouds

And close their gates.

Then for a while I could detain

These messengers in maiden form.

13 Yozei In

Tsukuba ne no

Mine yori otsuru

Minano-gawa

Koi zo tsumorite

Fuchi to nari nuru

Emperor Yozei

From Tsukuba’s peak

Falling waters have become

Mina’s still, full flow:

So my love has grown to be

Like the river’s quiet deeps.

14 Kawara no Sadaijin

Michinoku no

Shinobu moji-zuri

Tare yue ni

Midare some ni shi

Ware naranaku ni

Minamoto no Toru

Like Michinoku prints

Of the tangled leaves of ferns,

It is because of you

That I have become confused;

But my love for you remains.

15 Koko Tenno

Kimi ga tame

Haru no no ni idete

Wakana tsumu

Waga koromode ni

Yuki wa furi tsutsu

Emperor Koko

It is for your sake

That I walk the fields in spring,

Gathering green herbs,

While my garment’s hanging sleeves

Are speckled with falling snow.

16 Chunagon Yukihira

Tachi wakare

Inaba no yama no

Mine ni oru

Matsu to shi kikaba

Ima kaeri kon

Ariwara no Yukihira

Though we are parted,

If on Mount Inaba’s peak

I should hear the sound

Of the pine trees growing there,

I’ll come back again to you.

17 Ariwara no Narihira Ason

Chihayaburu

Kamiyo mo kikazu

Tatsuta-gawa

Kara kurenai ni

Mizu kukuru to wa

Ariwara no Narihira

Even when the gods

Held sway in the ancient days,

I have never heard

That water gleamed with autumn red

As it does in Tatta’s stream

18 Fujiwara no Toshiyuki Ason

Sumi no e no

Kishi ni yoru nami

Yoru sae ya

Yume no kayoi ji

Hito me yoku ran

Fujiwara no Toshiyuki

The waves are gathered

On the shore of Sumi Bay,

And in the gathered night,

When in dreams I go to you,

I hide from people’s eyes.

19 Ise

Naniwa gata

Mijikaki ashi no

Fushi no ma mo

Awade kono yo o

Sugushite yo to ya

Lady Ise

Even for a time

Short as a piece of the reeds

In Naniwa’s marsh,

We must never meet again:

Is this what you are asking me?

20 Motoyoshi Shinno

Wabi nureba

Ima hata onaji

Naniwa naru

Mi o tsukushite mo

Awan to zo omou

Prince Motoyoshi

In this dire distress

My life is meaningless.

So we must meet now,

Even though it costs my life

In the Bay of Naniwa.

21 Sosei Hoshi

Ima kon to

Iishi bakari ni

Nagatsuki no

Ariake no tsuki o

Machi izuru kana

The Monk Sosei

Just because she said,

“In a moment I will come,”

I’ve awaited her

Until the moon of daybreak,

In the long month, has appeared.

22 Fun’ya no Yasuhide

Fuku kara ni

Aki no kusaki no

Shiorureba

Mube yama kaze o

Arashi to iuran

Fun’ya no Yasuhide

It is by its breath

That autumn’s leaves of trees and grass

Are wasted and driven.

So they call this mountain wind

The wild one, the destroyer.

23 Oe no Chisato

Tsuki mireba

Chiji ni mono koso

Kanashi kere

Waga mi hitotsu no

Aki ni wa aranedo

Oe no Chisato

As I view the moon,

Many things come into my mind,

And my thoughts are sad;

Yet it’s not for me alone,

That the autumn time has come.

24 Kan Ke

Kono tabi wa

Nusa mo toriaezu

Tamukeyama

Momiji no nishiki

Kami no mani mani

Sugawara no Michizane

At the present time,

Since I could bring no offering,

See Mount Tamuke!

Here are brocades of red leaves,

As a tribute to the gods.

25 Sanjo Udaijin

Na ni shi owaba

Osakayama no

Sanekazura

Hito ni shirarede

Kuru yoshi mo gana

Fujiwara no Sadakata

If your name is true,

Trailing vine of “Meeting Hill,”

Isn’t there some way,

Hidden from people’s gaze,

That you can draw her to my side?

26 Teishin Ko

Ogurayama

Mine no momijiba

Kokoro araba

Ima hitotabi no

Miyuki matanan

Fujiwara no Tadahira

If the maple leaves

On Ogura mountain

Could only have hearts,

They would longingly await

The emperor’s pilgrimage.

27 Chunagon Kanesuke

Mika no Hara

Wakite nagaruru

Izumi-gawa

Itsu mi kitote ka

Koishi karuran

Fujiwara no Kanesuke

Over Mika’s plain,

Gushing forth and flowing free,

Is Izumi’s stream.

I do not know if we have met:

Why, then, do I long for her?

28 Minamoto no Muneyuki Ason

Yama-zato wa

Fuyu zo sabishisa

Masari keru

Hitome mo kusa mo

Karenu to omoeba

Minamoto no Muneyuki

Winter loneliness

In a mountain village grows

Only deeper, when

Guests are gone, and leaves and grass

Are withered: troubling thoughts.

29 Oshikochi no Mitsune

Kokoroate ni

Orabaya oran

Hatsushimo no

Oki madowaseru

Shiragiku no hana

Oshikochi no Mitsune

If it were my wish

To pick the white chrysanthemums,

Puzzled by the frost

Of the early autumn time,

I by chance might pluck the flower.

30 Mibu no Tadamine

Ariake no

Tsurenaku mieshi

Wakare yori

Akatsuki bakari

Uki mono wa nashi

Mibu no Tadamine

Like the morning moon,

Cold, unpitying was my love.

And since we parted,

I dislike nothing so much

As the breaking light of day.

31 Sakanoue no Korenori

Asaborake

Ariake no tsuki to

Miru made ni

Yoshino no sato ni

Fureru shirayuki

Sakanoue no Korenori

At the break of day,

Just as though the morning moon

Lightened the dim scene,

Yoshino’s village lay

In a haze of falling snow.

32 Harumichi no Tsuraki

Yama kawa ni

Kaze no kaketaru

Shigarami wa

Nagare mo aenu

Momiji nari keri

Harumichi no Tsuraki

In a mountain stream

There is a wattled barrier

Built by the busy wind.

Yet it’s only maple leaves,

Powerless to flow away.

33 Ki no Tomonori

Hisakata no

Hikari nodokeki

Haru no hi ni

Shizu-gokoro naku

Hana no chiruran

Ki no Tomonori

In the peaceful light

Of the ever-shining sun

In the days of spring,

Why do the cherry’s new-blown blooms

Scatter like restless thoughts?

34 Fujiwara no Okikaze

Tare o ka mo

Shiru hito ni sen

Takasago no

Matsu mo mukashi no

Tomo nara naku ni

Fujiwara no Okikaze

Who is still alive

When I have grown so old

That I can call my friends?

Even Takasago’s pines

No longer offer comfort.

35 Ki no Tsurayuki

Hito wa isa

Kokoro mo shirazu

Furusato wa

Hana zo mukashi no

Ka ni nioi keru

Ki no Tsurayuki

The depths of the hearts

Of humankind cannot be known.

But in my birthplace

The plum blossoms smell the same

As in the years gone by.

36 Kiyohara no Fukayabu

Natsu no yo wa

Mada yoi nagara

Akenuru o

Kumo no izuko ni

Tsuki yadoruran

Kiyohara no Fukayabu

In the summer night

The evening still seems present,

But the dawn is here.

To what region of the clouds

Has the wandering moon come home?

37 Fun’ya no Asayasu

Shiratsuyu ni

Kaze no fukishiku

Aki no no wa

Tsuranuki tomenu

Tama zo chiri keru

Fun’ya no Asayasu

In the autumn fields

When the heedless wind blows by

Over the pure-white dew,

How the myriad unstrung gems

Are scattered everywhere around

38 Ukon

Wasuraruru

Mi o ba omowazu

Chikaite shi

Hito no inochi no

Oshiku mo aru kana

Lady Ukon

Though he forsook me,

For myself I do not care:

He made a promise,

And his life, who is forsworn,

Oh how pitiful that is.

39 Sangi Hitoshi

Asajiu no

Ono no shinohara

Shinoburedo

Amarite nado ka

Hito no koishiki

Minamoto no Hitoshi

Bamboo growing

Among the tangled reeds

Like my hidden love:

But it is too much to bear

That I still love her so.

40 Taira no Kanemori

Shinoburedo

Iro ni ide ni keri

Waga koi wa

Mono ya omou to

Hito no tou made

Taira no Kanemori

Though I would hide it,

In my face it still appears—

My fond, secret love.

And now he questions me:

“Is something bothering you?”

41 Mibu no Tadami

Koisu cho

Waga na wa madaki

Tachi ni keri

Hito shirezu koso

Omoi someshi ka

Mibu no Tadami

It is true I love,

But the rumor of my love

Had gone far and wide,

When people should not have known

That I had begun to love.

42 Kiyohara no Motosuke

Chigiriki na

Katami ni sode o

Shibori tsutsu

Sue no Matsuyama

Nami kosaji to wa

Kiyohara no Motosuke

Our sleeves were wet with tears

As pledges that our love—

Will last until

Over Sue’s Mount of Pines

Ocean waves are breaking.

43 Chunagon Atsutada

Ai mite no

Nochi no kokoro ni

Kurabureba

Mukashi wa mono o

Omowazari keri

Fujiwara no Atsutada

I have met my love.

When I compare this present

With feelings of the past,

My passion is now as if

I have never loved before.

44 Chunagon Asatada

Au koto no

Taete shi nakuba

Nakanaka ni

Hito o mo mi o mo

Urami zaramashi

Fujiwara no Asatada

If it should happen

That we never met again,

I would not complain;

And I doubt that she or I

Would feel that we were left alone.

45 Kentoku Ko

Aware to mo

Iu beki hito wa

Omooede

Mi no itazura ni

Narinu beki kana

Fujiwara no Koremasa

Surely there is none

Who will speak a pitying word

About my lost love.

Now my folly’s fitting end

Is my own nothingness.

46 Sone no Yoshitada

Yura no to o

Wataru funabito

Kaji o tae

Yukue mo shiranu

Koi no michi kana

Sone no Yoshitada

Like a mariner

Sailing over Yura’s strait

With his rudder gone:

Where, over the deep of love,

The end lies, I do not know.

47 Egyo Hoshi

Yaemugura

Shigereru yado no

Sabishiki ni

Hito koso miene

Aki wa ki ni keri

The Monk Egyo

To the dim cottage

Overgrown with thick-leaved vines

In its loneliness

Comes the dreary autumn time:

But there no people come.

48 Minamoto no Shigeyuki

Kaze o itami

Iwa utsu nami no

Onore nomi

Kudakete mono o

Omou koro kana

Minamoto no Shigeyuki

Like a driven wave,

Dashed by fierce winds on a rock,

So am I: alone

And crushed upon the shore,

Remembering what has been.

49 Onakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason

Mikakimori

Eji no taku hi no

Yoru wa moe

Hiru wa kie tsutsu

Mono o koso omoe

Onakatomi no Yoshinobu

Like the guard’s fires

Kept at the imperial gateway—

Burning through the night,

Dull in ashes through the day—

Is the love aglow in me.

50 Fujiwara no Yoshitaka

Kimi ga tame

Oshi karazarishi

Inochi sae

Nagaku mo gana to

Omoi keru kana

Fujiwara no Yoshitaka

For your precious sake,

Once my eager life itself

Was not dear to me.

But now it is my heart’s desire

It may long, long years endure.

51 Fujiwara no Sanekata Ason

Kaku to dani

Eyawa ibuki no

Sashimogusa

Sashimo shiraji na

Moyuru omoi o

Fujiwara no Sanekata

How can I tell her

How fierce my love for her is?

Will she understand

That the love I feel for her

Burns like Ibuki’s fire plant?

52 Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason

Akenureba

Kururu mono to wa

Shiri nagara

Nao urameshiki

Asaborake kana

Fujiwara no Michinobu

Though I know indeed

That the night will come again

After day has dawned,

Still, in truth, I hate the sight

Of the morning’s coming light.

53 Udaisho Michitsuna no Haha

Nageki tsutsu

Hitori nuru yo no

Akuru ma wa

Ikani hisashiki

Mono to ka wa shiru

The Mother of Michitsuna

Lying all alone,

Through the hours of the night,

Till the daylight comes:

Can you realize at all

The emptiness of that night?

54 Gido Sanshi no Haha

Wasureji no

Yukusue made wa

Katakereba

Kyo o kagiri no

Inochi to mo gana

The Mother of Gido Sanshi

If remembering me

Will for him in future years

Be too difficult,

It would be well this very day

That I should end my life.

55 Dainagon Kinto

Taki no oto wa

Taete hisashiku

Narinuredo

Na koso nagarete

Nao kikoe kere

Fujiwara no Kinto

Though the waterfall

Ceased its flowing long ago,

And its sound is stilled,

Yet, in name it ever flows,

And in fame may yet be heard.

56 Izumi Shikibu

Arazaran

Kono yo no hoka no

Omoide ni

Ima hitotabi no

Au koto mo gana

Lady Izumi Shikibu

Soon my life will close.

When I am beyond this world

And have forgotten it,

Let me remember only this:

One final meeting with you.

57 Murasaki Shikibu

Meguri aite

Mishi ya sore to mo

Wakanu ma ni

Kumo-gakure ni shi

Yowa no tsuki kana

Lady Murasaki Shikibu

Meeting on the path:

But I cannot clearly know

If it was he,

Because the midnight moon

In a cloud had disappeared.

58 Daini no Sanmi

Arimayama

Ina no sasawara

Kaze fukeba

Ide soyo hito o

Wasure ya wa suru

Daini no Sanmi, Lady Kataiko

As Mount Arima

Sends its rustling winds across

Ina’s bamboo plains,

I will be just as steadfast

And never will forget you.

59 Akazome Emon

Yasurawade

Nenamashi mono o

Sayo fukete

Katabuku made no

Tsuki o mishi kana

Lady Akazome Emon

Better to have slept

Care-free, than to keep vain watch

Through the passing night,

Till I saw the lonely moon

Traverse her descending path.

60 Koshikibu no Naishi

Oeyama

Ikuno no michi no

To kereba

Mada fumi mo mizu

Ama no Hashidate

Lady Koshikibu

By Oe Mountain

The road to Ikuno

Is far away,

And neither have I beheld

Nor crossed its bridge of heaven.

61 Ise no Osuke

Inishie no

Nara no miyako no

Yae-zakura

Kyo kokonoe ni

Nioi nuru kana

Lady Ise no Osuke

Eight-fold cherry flowers

That at Nara—ancient seat

Of our state—have bloomed,

In our nine-fold palace court

Shed their sweet perfume today.

62 Sei Shonagon

Yo o komete

Tori no sorane wa

Hakaru tomo

Yo ni Osaka no

Seki wa yurusaji

Lady Sei Shonagon

The rooster’s crowing

In the middle of the night

Deceived the hearers;

But at Osaka’s gateway

The guards are never fooled.

63 Sakyo no Daibu Michimasa

Ima wa tada

Omoi taenan

To bakari wo

Hito-zute nara de

Iu yoshi mo gana

Fujiwara no Michimasa

Is there any way

Except by a messenger

To send these words to you?

If I could, I’d come to you

To say goodbye forever.

64 GonChunagon Sadayori

Asaborake

Uji no kawagiri

Tae-dae ni

Araware wataru

Zeze no ajirogi

Fujiwara no Sadayori

In the early dawn

When the mists on Uji River

Slowly lift and clear,

From the shallows to the deep,

The stakes of fishing nets appear.

65 Sagami

Urami wabi

Hosanu sode da ni

Aru mono o

Koi ni kuchinan

Na koso oshi kere

Lady Sagami

Even when your hate

Makes me stain my sleeves with tears

In cold misery,

Worse than hate and misery

Is the loss of my good name.

66 Saki no Daisojo Gyoson

Morotomo ni

Aware to omoe

Yama-zakura

Hana yori hoka ni

Shiru hito mo nashi

Abbot Gyoson

On a mountain slope,

Solitary, uncompanioned,

Stands a cherry tree.

Except for you, lonely friend,

To others I am unknown.

67 Suo no Naishi

Haru no yo no

Yume bakari naru

Tamakura ni

Kainaku tatan

Na koso oshi kere

Lady Suo

If I lay my head

Upon his arm in the dark

Of a short spring night,

This innocent dream pillow

Will be the death of my good name.

68 Sanjo In

Kokoro ni mo

Arade ukiyo ni

Nagaraeba

Koishikaru beki

Yowa no tsuki kana

Emperor Sanjo

Though I do not want

To live on in this floating world,

If I remain here,

Let me remember only

This midnight and this moonrise.

69 Noin Hoshi

Arashi fuku

Mimuro no yama no

Momijiba wa

Tatsuta no kawa no

Nishiki nari keri

The Monk Noin

By the wind storm’s blast

From Mimuro’s mountain slopes

Maples leaves are torn,

Which turn Tatsuta River

Into a rich brocade.

70 Ryosen Hoshi

Sabishisa ni

Yado o tachi idete

Nagamureba

Izuko mo onaji

Aki no yugure

The Monk Ryosen

In my loneliness

I leave my little hut.

When I look around,

Everywhere it is the same:

One lone, darkening autumn eve.

71 Dainagon Tsunenobu

Yu sareba

Kadota no inaba

Otozurete

Ashi no maroya ni

Akikaze zo fuku

Minamoto no Tsunenobu

When the evening comes,

From the rice leaves at my gate,

Gentle knocks are heard,

And, into my round rush-hut,

Enters autumn’s roaming breeze.

72 Yushi Naishinno-ke no Kii

Oto ni kiku

Takashi no hama no

Adanami wa

Kakeji ya sode no

Nure mo koso sure

Lady Kii

Famous are the waves

That break on Takashi beach

In noisy arrogance.

If I should go near that shore.

I would only wet my sleeves.

73 GonChunagon Masafusa

Takasago no

Onoe no sakura

Saki ni keri

Toyama no kasumi

Tatazu mo aranan

Oe no Masafusa

On that far mountain

On the slope below the peak

Cherries are in flower.

Oh, let the mountain mists

Not arise to hide the scene.

74 Minamoto no Toshiyori Ason

Ukari keru

Hito o Hatsuse no

Yama oroshi

Hageshikare to wa

Inoranu mono o

Minamoto no Toshiyori

It was not for this

I prayed at the holy shrine:

That she would become

As pitiless and as cold

As the storms on Hase’s hills.

75 Fujiwara no Mototoshi

Chigiri okishi

Sasemo ga tsuyu o

Inochi ni te

Aware kotoshi no

Aki mo inumeri

Fujiwara no Mototoshi

As dew promises

New life to the thirsty plant,

So did your vow to me.

Yet the year has passed away,

And autumn has come again.

76 Hoshoji no Nyudo Saki no Kanpaku Dajodaijin

Wata no hara

Kogi idete mireba

Hisakata no

Kumoi ni mago

Okitsu shiranami

Fujiwara no Tadamichi

Over the wide sea

As I sail and look around,

It appears to me

That the white waves, far away,

Are the ever shining sky.

77 Sutoku In

Se o hayami

Iwa ni sekaruru

Takigawa no

Warete mo sue ni

Awan to zo omou

Emperor Sutoku

Though a swift stream is

Divided by a boulder

In its headlong flow,

Though divided, on it rushes,

And at last unites again.

78 Minamoto no Kanemasa

Awaji shima

Kayou chidori no

Naku koe ni

Ikuyo nezamenu

Suma no sekimori

Minamoto no Kanemasa

Guard of Suma Gate,

From your sleep, how many nights

Have you awakened

At the cries of sanderlings,

Flying from Awaji Island?

79 Sakyo no Daibu Akisuke

Akikaze ni

Tanabiku kumo no

Taema yori

More izuru tsuki no

Kage no sayakesa

Fujiwara no Akisuke

See how clear and bright

Is the moonlight finding ways

Through the riven clouds

That, with drifting autumn wind,

Gracefully float in the sky.

80 Taiken Moin no Horikawa

Nagakaran

Kokoro mo shirazu

Kurokami no

Midarete kesa wa

Mono o koso omoe

Lady Horikawa

Is it forever

That he hopes our love will last?

He did not answer.

And now my daylight thoughts

Are as tangled as my black hair.

81 Go Tokudaiji no Sadaijin

Hototogisu

Nakitsuru kata o

Nagamureba

Tada ariake no

Tsuki zo nokoreru

Fujiwara no Sanesada

When I turned my look

Toward the place where I had heard

The cuckoo’s call,

The only thing I found

Was the moon of early dawn.

82 Doin Hoshi

Omoi wabi

Satemo inochi wa

Aru mono o

Uki ni taenu wa

Namida nari keri

The Monk Doin

Though in deep distress

Through your cruel blow, my life

Still is left to me.

But I cannot keep my tears;

They break forth from my grief.

83 Kotaigogu no Daibu Toshinari

Yo no naka yo

Michi koso nakere

Omoi iru

Yama no oku ni mo

Shika zo naku naru

Fujiwara no Toshinari

From this world I think

That there is nowhere to escape.

I wanted to hide

In the mountains’ farthest depths;

But there I hear the stag’s cry.

84 Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Ason

Nagaraeba

Mata konogoro ya

Shinobaren

Ushi to mishi yo zo

Ima wa koishiki

Fujiwara no Kiyosuke

If I should live long,

Then perhaps the present days

May be dear to me,

Just as past time filled with grief

Comes quietly back in thought.

85 Shun’e Hoshi

Yo mo sugara

Mono omou koro wa

Ake yarade

Neya no hima sae

Tsure nakari keri

The Monk Shun’e

Through an unsleeping night

Longingly I pass the hours,

While the day’s dawn lags.

And now the bedroom shutters

Are keeping light and life from me.

86 Saigyo Hoshi

Nageke tote

Tsuki ya wa mono o

Omowasuru

Kakochi gao naru

Waga namida kana

The Monk Saigyo

Should I blame the moon

For bringing forth this sadness,

As if it pictured grief?

Lifting up my troubled face,

I regard it through my tears.

87 Jakuren Hoshi

Murasame no

Tsuyu mo mada hinu

Maki no ha ni

Kiri tachinoboru

Aki no yugure

The Monk Jakuren

An autumn eve:

See the valley mists arise

Among the fir leaves

That still hold the dripping wet

Of the chill day’s sudden showers.

88 Koka Moin no Betto

Naniwae no

Ashi no karine no

Hitoyo yue

Mi o tsukushite ya

Koi wataru beki

Attendant to Empress Koka

After one brief night—

Short as a piece of the reeds

Growing in Naniwa bay—

Must I forever long for him

With my whole heart, till life ends?

89 Shokushi Naishinno

Tama no o yo

Taenaba taene

Nagaraeba

Shinoburu koto no

Yowari mo zo suru

Princess Shokushi

Like a string of gems

Grown weak, my life will break now;

For if I live on,

All I do to hide my love

May at last grow weak and fail.

90 Inpu Moin no Taifu

Misebaya na

Ojima no ama no

Sode dani mo

Nure ni zo nureshi

Iro wa kawarazu

Attendant to Empress Inpu

Let me show him these!

Even the fishermen’s sleeves

On Ojima’s shores,

Though wet through and wet again,

Do not so change their colors.

91 Go Kyogoku no Sessho Saki no Dajodaijin

Kirigirisu

Naku ya shimo yo no

Samushiro ni

Koromo katashiki

Hitori kamo nen

Fujiwara no Yoshitsune

In my cold bed,

Drawing close my folded quilt,

I sleep alone,

While all through the frosty night

I hear a cricket’s lonely sound.

92 Nijo In no Sanuki

Waga sode wa

Shiohi ni mienu

Oki no ishi no

Hito koso shirane

Kawaku ma mo nashi

Lady Sanuki

Like a rock at sea,

At ebb-tide hidden from view,

Is my tear-drenched sleeve:

Never for a moment dry,

And no one knows it is there.

93 Kamakura no Udaijin

Yo no naka wa

Tsune ni mo ga mo na

Nagisa kogu

Ama no obune no

Tsuna de kanashi mo

Minamoto no Sanetomo

If only our world

Could be always as it is!

How moving the sight

Of the little fishing boat

Drawn by ropes along the bank.

94 Sangi Masatsune

Miyoshino no

Yama no akikaze

Sayo fukete

Furusato samuku

Koromo utsu nari

Fujiwara no Masatsune

From Mount Yoshino

Blows a chill, autumnal wind.

In the deepening night

The ancient village shivers:

Sounds of beating cloth I hear.

95 Daisojo Jien

Okenaku

Ukiyo no tami ni

Ou kana

Waga tatsu soma ni

Sumizome no sode

Abbot Jien

From the monastery

On Mount Hiei I look out

On this world of tears,

And though I am unworthy,

I shield it with my black sleeves.

96 Nyudo Saki no Dajodaijin

Hana sasou

Arashi no niwa no

Yuki nara de

Furi yuku mono wa

Waga mi nari keri

Fujiwara no Kintsune

Not the snow of flowers,

That the hurrying wild wind whirls

Round the garden court:

What withers and falls away

In this place is I myself.

97 GonChunagon Sadaie

Konu hito o

Matsuho no ura no

Yunagi ni

Yaku ya moshio no

Mi mo kogare tsutsu

Fujiwara no Teika

Like the salt sea-weed,

Burning in the evening calm.

On Matsuo’s shore,

All my being is aflame,

Awaiting her who does not come.

98 Junii Ietaka

Kaze soyogu

Nara no ogawa no

Yugure wa

Misogi zo natsu no

Shirushi nari keru

Fujiwara no Ietaka

To Nara’s brook comes

Evening, and the rustling winds

Stir the oak-trees’ leaves.

Not a sign of summer left

But the sacred bathing there.

99 Gotoba In

Hito mo oshi

Hito mo urameshi

Ajiki naku

Yo o omou yue ni

Mono omou mi wa

Emperor Gotoba

For some men I grieve;

Some men are hateful to me;

And this wretched world

To me, with all my sadness,

Is a place of misery.

100 Juntoku In

Momoshiki ya

Furuki nokiba no

Shinobu ni mo

Nao amari aru

Mukashi nari keri

Emperor Juntoku

In this ancient house,

Paved with a hundred stones,

Ferns grow in the eaves;

But numerous as they are,

My old memories are more.

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