| 1001 | KW001001 |  | 読人不知 | あふことの／まれなる色に／おもひそめ／わか身はつねに／あま雲の／はるゝ時なく／ふしのねの／もえつゝとはに／おもへとも／あふことかたし／なにしかも／人をうらみん／わたつみの／おきをふかめて／おもひてし／思ひはいまは／いたつらに／なりぬへら也＠／ゆくみつの／たゆる時なく／かくなはに／思みたれて／ふる雪の／けなはけぬへく／おもへとも／えふのみなれは／猶やます／思ひはふかし／あし引の／山した水の／こかくれて／たきつこゝろを／たれにかも／あひかたらはん／色にいては／人しりぬへみ＠／すみそめの／ゆふへになれは／ひとりゐて／あはれ〈あはれ〉と／なけきあまり／せんすへなみに／にはに出て／たちやすらへは／しろたへの／衣のそてに／をく露の／けなはけぬへく／おもへとも／猶なけかれぬ／春かすみ／よそにも人に／あはれとおもへは＠ | as seldom seen as / some rare hue is the one for / whom love stains my heart / within my heart is bleak dark / as c1oud-laden skies / that neither brighten nor clear / like the molten core / of fuji my love will burn / undying I know / we can never rendezvous / but why should I feel / resentment or reproach her / the longings I've felt / unfathomable as the / deep waters of the / offing are in vain / I cannot hope to / quench the fires within my heart / like running water / which never ceases to flow / my yearnings pour forth / entangled as Chinese sweets / if I must vanish / with as little trace as the / snowflakes so be it / a being of this transient / world am I and thus / my endless longings run deep / through the foothills of / the lonely mountains flows a / stream hidden within / the dark sheltering forest / to whom may I speak / of the turbulence in my heart / if it should push to / the surface others would know / when night comes at last / quiet night dyed inky black / I am all alone / and I sigh and sigh again / as grief overflows / there is only the solace / of cntering my / garden and wandering through / its stillness thinking / if I must vanish with as / little trace as the / dew that settles on my robe's / white sleeves so be it / still my sighs grow in number / for I long to see my / love even from afar as / we view the distant spring mists / |
| 1002 | KW001002 |  | 貫之 | ちはやふる／神のみよゝり／くれ竹の／世々にもたえす／あまひこの／をとはの山の／はるかすみ／おもひみたれて／さみたれの／空もとゝろに／さよふけて／山ほとゝきす／なくことに／たれもねさめて／からにしき／たつたの山の／もみちはを／見てのみしのふ＠／神無月／しくれ〈しくれ〉て／冬の夜の／庭もはたれに／ふる雪の／猶きえかへり／としことに／時につけつゝ／あはれてふ／ことをいひつゝ／君をのみ／ちよにといはふ／世の人の／おもひするかの／ふしのねの／もゆる思ひも／あかすして＠／わかるゝなみた／ふちころも／をれる心も／やちくさの／ことのはことに／すへらきの／おほせかしこみ／まき〈まき〉の／中につくすと／いせのうみの／浦のしほかひ／ひろひあつめ／とれりとすれと／たまのをの／みしかき心／思ひあへす／猶あらたまの＠／としをへて／大宮にのみ／久かたの／ひるよるわかす／つかふとて／かへりみもせぬ／わかやとの／しのふ草おふる／いたまあらみ／ふる春雨の／もりやしぬらん＠ | since the age of the / awesome gods never ceasing / during reigns profuse / as the joints of black bamboo / men have sung with thoughts / entangled by the spring mists / that drift over Mount / Otowa where echoes sound / unable to sleep / when awakened by the late / night cries of mountain / hototogisu echoing / through skies rumbling with / early summer thunderstorms / gazing lovingly / upon the bright brocade of / autumn leaves scattered / upon Tatsuta Mountain / when like the Tenth Month / showers chill winter's portent / like the snow that falls / in patches on the garden / during winter nights / they felt their hearts melt and fade / when as the cycle / of the year passed once more or / when especially / moved to express their feelings / they wished their lords a / lifespan of one thousand years / the burning desires / of the people of this worId / smoldering like the / molten core of Mount Fuji / in far Suruga / the tears of those who part too / soon the strands of grief / that bind hearts like skeins of fine / wisteria boughs / these words abundant as the / leaves of eight thousand / grasses upon the meadows / humbly receiving / that imperial command / in scroll upon scroll / I gathered selecting them / as one collects shells / by the waters of Ise still / my heart's measure was / insuffcient to embrace / the jewels I'd found / each year I greet the New Year / having spenth the old / entirely in the palace / in the service of / my lord working day and night / neath skies light and dark / never looking back upon / my own beloved home / where grasses of longing grow / through widening cracks / do spring rains seep through / while verses yet elude me / |
| 1003 | KW001003 | | 忠岑 | くれ竹の／よゝのふること／なかりせは／いかほのぬまの／いかにして／おもふ心を／のはへまし／あはれむかしへ／ありきてふ／人まろこそは／うれしけれ／身はしもなから／ことのはを／あまつ空まて／きこえあけ／すゑの世まての／あとゝなし＠／今もおほせの／くたれるは／ちりにつけとや／ちりの身に／つもれることを／とはるらん／これを思へは／いにしへも／くすりけかせる／けたものゝ／雲にほえけん／心ちして／ちゝのなさけも／おもほえす／ひとつ心そ／ほこらしき／かくはあれとも／てるひかり＠／ちかきまもりの／身成しを／たれかは秋の／くるかたに／あさむきいてゝ／みかきより／とのへもる身の／みかきもり／おさ〈おさ〉しくも／おもほえす／こゝのかさねの／なかにては／嵐のかせも／きかさりき／今はの山し／ちかけれは／春はかすみに＠／たなひかれ／夏はうつせみ／なきくらし／秋は時雨に／そてをかし／冬は霜にそ／せめらるゝ／かゝるわひしき／身なからに／つもれる年を／しるせれは／いつゝのむつに／成にけり／これにそはれる／わたくしの／おいのかすさへ／やよけれは／身はいやしくて＠／としたかき／ことのくるしさ／かくしつゝ／なからのはしの／なからへて／なにはの浦に／たつなみの／なみのしはにや／おほゝれん／さすかに命／おしけれは／こしのくになる／しら山の／かしらはしろく／なりぬとも／をとはの瀧の／音にきく／おいすしなすの＠／くすりもか／君かやちよを／わかえつゝ見ん＠ | were it not for the / poems of past generations / numerous as black / bamboo how would we tell each / other of the thoughts / within our hearts silent as / Ikaho Marsh yes / how fortunate we are how / we rejoice that once / long ago there was a man / called Hitomaro / though a lowly man still he / raised his songs and made / them heard within the palace / distant as the skies / made them proper models for / songs of days to come / now I too am asked for the / songs piled about me / and though unworthy I must / obey those commands / to follow the footsteps of / that poet of old / when I realize all this / my feelings are those / of that animal of long / ago who lapped up / the elixer and howled from / the clouds far above / all my many sorrows and / joys are put aside / and my heart is set upon / only this proud task / yet while this is so I who / once was a trusted / guard who was posted near to / that shining presence / was deceived by someone and / transfered to the west / the region from which autumn / comes did ever I / think I would long remain guard / of these outer gates / sentry of the far precincts / of our shiing lord / within the noble ninefold / enclosure I lived / and never heard the shrill winds / of the raging storms / now because of the nearness / of fields and mountains / I walk enshrouded muffled / in thick mists of spring / crying throughout the summer / like a cicada / wiping the autumn drizzle / with my sodden sleeves / ravaged by the harsh winter's / merciless frosts as / I live in this misery / I reckon all the / years years which piled one upon / another and I / find they have numbered six times / five thirty in all / and added to all those years / of public service / my private years my lifetime / spans numerous days / so while my status is low / my store of years is / high a painful fact to me / I must continue / hiding living out my span / like Nagara Bridge / sodden wrinkles trembling like / the waves which rise row / upon uneven row in / Naniwa's fair bay / even so my life is dear / I cling to my life / though my hair has turned as white / as the peak of famed / White Mountain in the distant / Province of Koshi / I long for that elixir / they tell of whispering / soft as the rushing waters / that keeps one ever / young so that I too might see / my lord's eight-thousand-year reign / |
| 1004 | KW001004 | | 忠岑 | 君か世に／逢坂山の／いはしみつ／こかくれたりと／おもひける哉＠ | born in my lord's reign / to live as I thought unknown -- / hidden as the springs / whose pure rockbound waters flow / deep in Mount O~saka's forests / |
| 1005 | KW001005 | | 躬恒 | ちはやふる／神な月とや／けさよりは／くもりもあへす／＊うちしくれ／紅葉とゝもに／ふるさとの／よしのゝ山の／山あらしも／さむく日ことに／なりゆけは／玉のをとけて／こきちらし／あられみたれて／しもこほり／いやかたまれる／庭のおもに＠／むら〈むら〉みゆる／冬くさの／うへにふりしく／しら雪の／つもり〈つもり〉て／あらたまの／年をあまたも／すくしつる哉／＊５はつしくれイ＠ | October the month / when the awesome gods retreat / has come suddenly / this morning the clouds gathered / to shed the first cold / rain of winter together / with the colored leaves / on our old hamlet deep in / Yoshino Mountain / raging storms sweep down the slopes / each day grows more chill / the pearl necklace is untied / its jewels stripped and / scattered as wildly falling / hail frost crystals freeze / on the now rock-hard surface / of my ravaged garden / where brown hillocks and mounds of / withered grasses stand / soft snows settle there and spread / drifting from the thick / white clouds that blanket the sky / ah how many new / years unformed as rough-cut gems / have I lived to see pass by / |
| 1006 | KW001006 |  | 伊勢 | おきつなみ／あれのみまさる／宮のうちは／年へてすみし／いせのあまも／舟なかしたる／心地して／よらんかたなく／かなしきに／涙のいろの／くれなゐは／われらかなかの／時雨にて／秋のもみちと／人〈々〉は／をのかちり〈ちり〉／わかれなは＠／たのむかけなく／なりはてゝ／とまる物とは／はなすゝき／君なき庭に／むれたちて／空をまねかは／はつかりの／なきわたりつゝ／よそにこそ見め＠ | I too who now fish / the wide waters of Ise / lived for years on end / within that palace now grown / desolate and still / like a ship adrift in rough / waves in the offing / no mooring can I find no / solace for my grief / the tears which stain our faces / have turned a blood-red / as they fall among us like / melancholy rains / because all the others have / scattered to their homes / drifting away like colored / leaves of late autumn / we have been abandoned here / with no shelterng / shade of those who remain here / only the blooming / plume grass standing in clusters / in the garden you / visit no more beckons to / the sky where the first / geese cry on their long journey / no longer will this be home / |
| 1007 | KW001007 | | 読人不知 | うちわたす／をちかた人に／物まうすわれ／そのそこに／しろくさけるは／なにのはなそも＠ | I would ask of you / you who are so far away / as far as my eyes can see / what is that flower / that blooms so fair and white / upon those distant meadows / |
| 1008 | KW001008 | | 読人不知 | 春されは／のへにまつさく／みれとあかぬ／花まひなしに／たゝなのるへき／はなのなゝれや＠ | when we welcome spring / this is the flower that first / clothes the fields the blossom we / behold tenderly / is this then a bloom whose name / should be spoken lightly / |
| 1009 | KW001009 | | 読人不知 | はつせ川／ふるかはのへに／ふたもとあるすき／年をへて／又もあひ見ん／二もとあるすき＠ | Hatsuse River / there by those ancient waters / towering two-trunked cedar / after years have passed / once more we'll meet you and I / towering two-trunked cedar / |
| 1010 | KW001010 | | 貫之 | 君かさす／みかさの山の／紅葉はのいろ／神な月／時雨の雨の／そめるなりけり＠ | broad as my lord's an / umbrella of clouds stretchcs / above Mikasa Mountain / the brilliant autumn / leaves have been dyed in harvest / colors by the early winter drizzle / |
| 1011 | KW001011 | | 読人不知 | 梅の花／みにこそきつれ／鴬の／ひとく〈ひとく〉と／いとひしもをる＠ | I came here only / to gaze upon plum blossoms / but still the wood thrush / laments hitoku hitoku / a man has come man has come / |
| 1012 | KW001012 | | 素性 | 山吹の／花いろ衣／ぬしやたれ／とへとこたへす／くちなしにして＠ | who owns this garment / brightyellow as the lovely / wild mountain roses / I ask yet no reply comes / cape jasmine dye cannot speak / |
| 1013 | KW001013 | | 敏行 | いくはくの／たをつくれはか／郭公／してのたをさを／朝な〈朝な〉よふ＠ | hototogisu / foreman of the netherworld / how many fields must / ploughshares till as you call out / each morning at planting time / |
| 1014 | KW001014 | | 兼輔 | いつしかと／またく心を／はきにあけて／あまのかはらを／けふやわたらん＠ | impatiently he / stands there cloak raised to his knees / eager to straddle / heaven's river wondering / if today he will cross it / |
| 1015 | KW001015 | | 躬恒 | むつことも／またつきなくに／明ぬめり／いつらは秋の／なかしてふよは＠ | their sweet words of love / are not yet exhausted but / already day has / dawned where are those autumn nights / those hours they say are so long / |
| 1016 | KW001016 | | 遍昭 | 秋のゝに／なまめきたてる／女郎花／あなかしかまし／花も一とき＠ | flirtatiously they / sway in the fields of autumn / fair maiden flowers / competing loudly for my gaze - / your blossoms too are short-lived / |
| 1017 | KW001017 | | 読人不知 | 秋くれは／野邊にたはるゝ／女郎花／いつれの人か／＊つまてみるへき／＊５つてにみるへきイ＠ | when autumn arrives / and lovely maiden flowers / frolic in the fields / who can resist them who can / just look and not pluck their blooms / |
| 1018 | KW001018 | | 読人不知 | 秋霧の／はれてくもれは／をみなへし／花の姿そ／見えかくれする＠ | as the autumn mists / clear and then cover the fields / the maiden flowers' / lovely colors too appear / and then disappear once more / |
| 1019 | KW001019 | | 読人不知 | 花とみて／おらんとすれは／女郎花／うたゝあるさまの／なにこそ有けれ＠ | seeing their lovely / blossoms I reached out my hand / to pluck one only / to recall their name maiden / flowers I must resist / |
| 1020 | KW001020 | | 棟梁 | 秋風に／ほころひぬらし／藤袴／つゝりさせてふ／きり〈きり〉す鳴＠ | unraveled and torn / apart by the autumn winds / purple trousers of / the fields sew up their seams / the cicadas loudly cry / |
| 1021 | KW001021 | | 深養父 | 冬なから／春のとなりの／ちかけれは／中かきよりそ／花はちりける＠ | still winter and yet / its neighbor spring must be near / for over the fence / between our gardens fragile / snow-white petals are falling / |
| 1022 | KW001022 | | 読人不知 | いその神／ふりにしこひの／神さひて／たゝるに我は／いそねかねつる＠ | a long-ago love / became a ghostly spirit / who haunts me now at / Isonokami where I / can no longer sleep in peace / |
| 1023 | KW001023 | | 読人不知 | 枕より／跡より戀の／せめくれは／せんかたなみそ／とこなかにをる＠ | when from my pillow / and from the foot of my bed / thoughts of love rise to / inflict their pain I simply / cower here in the middle / |
| 1024 | KW001024 | | 読人不知 | 戀しきか／かたも方こそ／ありときけ／たてれをれとも／＊なき心ち哉／＊５なき心ちするイ＠ | in love they tell me / there are established forms / certain conventions / but whether I sit down or / stand up I feel no order / |
| 1025 | KW001025 | | 読人不知 | ありぬやと／心見かてら／あひみねは／たはふれにくき／まてそ戀しき＠ | to test my heart I / decide to stay away to / see if I can live / with separation but my / love is too strong to play with / |