| 71.
Yu sare ba Kadota no inaba Otozure te Ashi no maroya ni Akikaze zo fuku /
Dainagon Tsunenobu(1016-1097 /
Genre: autumn
When evening comes, an autumn cool breeze, rustling the rice plant leaves in the paddy fields in front of my residence, blows to my humble reed hut. |
| 72.
Oto ni kiku Takashi no hama no Adanami wa Kakeji ya sode no Nure mo koso sure /
Yushi-naishino Kenoki /
Genre: love * pun: takashi = "Takashi Beach" and "famous" kake = "to water" and "to care" I'll be careful not to take the famous waves(= your flirtation) on Takashi Beach, otherwise I'll get my sleeves wet (with tears). |
| 73.
Takasago no Onoe no sakura Saki ni keri Toyama no kasumi Tata zu mo ara namu /
Saki no Chunagon Masafusa(1041-1111) /
Genre: spring
The cherry blossoms have got in bloom at the top of distant high mountains. Mist over mountains near villages, please don't lay over them. |
| 74.
Ukari keru Hito wo Hatsuse no Yama oroshi yo Hageshikare to wa Inora nu mono wo /
Minamoto no Toshiyori Ason /
Genre: love
A fierce wind blowing down from the mountains in Hatsuse, I prayed (at Hase Temple) that the lady who are not interested in me would turn to me, not that my bitterness would get heavier. |
| 75.
Chigiri oki shi Sasemo ga tsuyu wo Inochi ni te Aware kotoshi no Aki mo inu meri /
Fujiwara no Mototoshi(1060-1142) /
Genre: others
I have been relying on the word "sashimo-gusa(="Don't worry. Leave it to me.")" like a welcome dew you promised me, but oh, it looks just going over in vain without fulfillment of my wish this autumn too! |
| 76.
Watanohara Kogiide te mire ba Hisakata no Kumoi ni magau Oki tsu shiranami /
Hosshoji Nyudo, Saki no Kanpaku-Daijodaijin(1097-1164) /
Genre: others
If I start rowing toward the ocean and look over, whitecaps are forming in the offing as if they were white clouds in the sky. |
| 77.
Se wo hayami Iwa ni seka ruru Takigawa no Ware te mo sue ni Awa mu to zo omou /
Sutokuin /
Genre: love * double meanings: to split "water" and "you and me" I declare that I will be with you again in the future even if I say good-bye to you, as well as a stream running as fast as a waterfall is stopped and split into two by rocks because it runs too fast but unites later. |
| 78.
Awajishima Kayou chidori no Naku koe ni Ikuyo nezame nu Suma no sekimori /
Minamoto no Kanemasa(?-1112) /
Genre: winter
I'm wondering how many nights the gatekeeper of Suma Barrier was wakened by the sad songs of plovers flying from Awazi Island. |
| 79.
Akikaze ni Tanabiku kumo no Taema yori More izuru tsuki no Kage no sayakesa /
Sakyo no Daibu Akisuke /
Genre: autumn
How bright and clear the moonlight through the rifts in the clouds trailing with an autumn wind is! |
| 80.
Nagakara mu Kokoro mo shira zu Kurokami no Midare te kesa wa Mono wo koso omoe /
Taikenmonin Horikawa /
Genre: love
I can not see your mind well although you said you would love me forever, so this morning I'm lost in thought with my heart confused like my disheveled black hair. |