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Samidare wa iwa seku numa no mizu fukami wakeshi ishima no kayoiji mo nashi
In the early summer rains, the marsh held back by the rocks has grown so deep that the path between the stones I used to make my way through is gone.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kozasa shiku furusato ono no michi no ato o mata sawa ni nasu samidare no koro
In the old village fields carpeted with bamboo grass, the early summer rains once again turn the traces of the path into a marsh.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsukuzuku to noki no shizuku o nagametsutsu hi o nomi kurasu samidare no koro
Lost in thought, I gaze at the raindrops falling from the eaves through the long rains, and pass each day doing nothing else, in this season of early summer rain.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Azumaya no ogaya ga noki no itomizu ni tama nukikakuru samidare no koro
From the reed-thatched eaves of the humble arbor, the rainwater falls in slender threads, the drops strung along them like beads hung up to view, in this season of early summer rain.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Samidare ni oda no sanae ya ika naran aze no ukitsuchi araikosarete
In these early summer rains, how are the young rice plants in the fields faring, with the soft mud of the ridges washed over and away?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Samidare no koro ni shi nareba araoda ni hito mo makasenu mizu tataikeri
Now that the season of early summer rains has come, even the abandoned fields are brimming with water that no one has led into them.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Samidare ni hosu hima nakute moshiogusa keburi mo tatenu ura no amabito
With the early summer rains allowing no time to dry the seaweed for salt, the fisherfolk of the bay cannot even raise the smoke of their salt fires.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Minasegawa ochi no kayoiji mizu michite funawatari suru samidare no koro
Even the Minase River, the waterless river, has filled the path that leads to the far bank, and in the early summer rains we must cross by boat.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hirosegawa watari no oki no mioshirushi mikasa zo fukaki samidare no koro
At the ford of the Hirose River, the channel markers out in the stream show how deep the water has grown in the early summer rains.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hayasegawa tsunade no kishi o oki ni mite noboriwazurau samidare no koro
On the swift river, the bank where boats are hauled by tow ropes now looks as distant as the open water, and the boats struggle to make their way upstream in the early summer rains.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Mizu wakuru Naniwa horie no nakariseba ika ni ka semashi samidare no koro
If there were no Naniwa canal to divide the waters and carry them off, what could anyone do in this season of early summer rain?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Fune sueshi minato no ashima sao tatete kokoro yukuran samidare no koro
Mooring their boats among the reeds of the harbor with poles set upright, the boatmen must be passing the time at their ease in this season of early summer rain.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Minasoko ni shikarenikeri na samidarete mizu no makomo o kari ni kitareba
When I came to cut the wild rice in the water, I found it had sunk to the bottom, flattened and tangled by the early summer rains.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Samidare no oyamu harema no nakarame ya mizu no kasa hose makomo karu fune
Surely there will be a lull in the early summer rains. Then let the flood go down and dry your hats, you boats that cut the wild rice.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Samidare ni Sano no funahashi ukinureba norite zo hito wa sashiwataruran
Since the early summer rains have set the boat bridge of Sano afloat, people must now be riding it and poling their way across.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Samidare no harenu hikazu no furu mama ni numa no makomo wa migakurenikeri
As the days pass one after another without a break in the early summer rains, the wild rice in the marsh has sunk out of sight beneath the water.
Sankashu - Saigyō