Citrine

2021-07-18

草も木も色變れどもわたつうみの浪の花にぞ秋なかりける

文屋康秀

古今和歌集250 巻第五「秋歌下」

Though both trees and blooms Have lost their hue For the ocean Flowering waves No autumn comes.

Kokin Waka Shuu “Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times”

(No.250 Autumn Book:5)

Fun’ya no Yasuhide

#yesjaoui

2020-05-27

ちりをだにすゑじとぞ思ふさきしよりいもとわがぬるとこ夏のはな

躬恒

古今和歌集167 巻第三「夏歌」

Not even dust May touch them, I feel, Since they’ve bloomed, Where my love and I bed down On pink coverlets of flowers.

 Kokin Waka Shuu “Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times”

 (No.167 Summer Vol.3)

 Mitsune

#yesjaoui

2020-05-26

夏と秋と ゆきかふ空のかよひぢは かたへ涼しき風や吹くらむ 躬恒

古今和歌集168 巻第三「夏歌」

As Summer and Autumn Pass each other on the sky’s Byways, From one side does a cool Breeze blow, I wonder? Kokin Waka Shuu “Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times”

Kokin Waka Shuu (No.168 Summer Vol.3) Mitsune

#yesjaoui

2020-05-25

やどりせし花橘もかれなくになどほととぎすこゑたえぬらむ 大江千里 古今和歌集155 巻第三「夏歌」

Your resting place:

The orange blossoms

Are yet in bloom,

So why, oh, cuckoo,

Has your voice failed? Kokin Waka Shuu “Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times”

Kokin Waka Shuu (No.155 Summer Vol.3)

Ōe no Chisato

#yesjaoui

2020-05-24

さくら花ちらばちらなむちらすとてふるさと人のきても見なくに

惟喬親王「古今和歌集」歌番号13(巻一　春歌上)

Oh cherry blossoms

If you must fall do it now

If you cling to life

That one from my old village

Will never come to see you

Kokin Waka Shuu “Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times”

Kokin Waka Shuu (No.74 Spring 2 Vol.2)

2020-05-23

花の香を風のたよりにたぐへてぞ鶯さそふしるべにはやる

紀友則「古今和歌集」歌番号13(巻一　春歌上)

The blossoms’ scent Messaged on the breeze Brings An invitation to the warbler To try and bring him forth!

Kokin Waka Shuu “Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times”

Kokin Waka Shuu (No.13 Spring 1 Vol.1)

2020-05-22

ふたつなきものと思ひしを水底に山の端ならでいづる月影

紀貫之「古今和歌集」歌番号881(巻十七　雑歌上)

A singular Thing, it was, I thought, yet From the water’s depths, Not from the mountains’ peaks, Comes moonlight.

Kokin Waka Shuu “Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times”

Kokin Waka Shuu (No.881 Miscellaneous 1 Vol.18)

Ki no Tsurayuki

2020-05-21

木にもあらず草にもあらぬ竹のよの端に我が身はなりぬべらなり

読み人知らず「古今和歌集」歌番号200(巻十八　雑歌下)

Neither a tree nor Yet a grass is the bamboo And like it have I Become a being somewhere Between joint and node half-formed

Kokin Waka Shuu “Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times”

Kokin Waka Shuu (Miscellaneous 2 Vol.18) 

Anonymous

2020-05-20

君しのぶ草にやつるる故郷は松虫の音ぞ悲しかりける

2020-05-19

郭公はつこゑきけばあぢきなくぬしさだまらぬこひせらるはた

素性法師「古今和歌集」歌番号143(巻三　夏歌)

The cuckoo’s

First call comes to me and,

Foolishly,

With no one in mind

I think of love.

Kokin Waka Shuu

“Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times”(Summer No.143)

The Monk Sosei

2020-05-17

graduation pieces

Graduation pieces