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- Sankashu
Nami ni shiku momiji no iro o arau yue ni nishiki no shima to iu ni ya aruran
Is it because the waves wash the color of the autumn leaves spread upon them that this is called the Island of Brocade?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kiki mo sezu tabashineyama no sakurabana yoshino no hoka ni kakaru beshi to wa
I had never heard of it—the cherry blossoms of Mount Tabashine! Who would have thought there could be such blossoms anywhere but Yoshino?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Oku ni nao hito minu hana no chiranu are ya tazune o iran yamahototogisu
Deep in the mountains, might there still be blossoms no one has seen, not yet fallen? I will go in to seek them, mountain cuckoo.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsubana nuku kitano no chihara aseyukeba kokoro sumire zo oikawarikeru
As the cogon field of Kitano fades, where people pull the young shoots, violets grow up in their place, clearing the heart.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hana no ori kashiwa ni tsutsumu shinanonashi wa midori naredomo akashi no mi to miyu
The Shinano pear, wrapped in oak leaves and sent in blossom time, is still green, yet to me it looks like a ripe red fruit, a token of your kindness.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Furinikeri kimi ga miyuki no suzu no sō wa ika naru yo ni mo taezu kikoete
The ringing of the bells announced at your royal progress has become a thing of the past—yet whatever the age, I hear it ringing still without end.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nami no utsu oto o tsuzumi ni magaureba irihi no kage no uchite yuraruru
Since I mistake the sound of the breaking waves for the beating of a drum, even the light of the setting sun seems to sway as though struck.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yamazato no hito mo kozue no matsu ga ure ni aware ni kiiru hototogisu kana
Though no one comes to my mountain village, how movingly the cuckoo comes to perch at the tip of the pine's top branches.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Naraekeru kokoro wa ware ka hototogisu kimi machietaru yoi no makura ni
Did you learn your waiting heart from me, cuckoo, singing by my pillow on the very evening I have at last welcomed you?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Haraka tsuru ōwatasaki no ukenawa ni kokoro kaketsutsu sugin to zo omou
I mean to pass by with care, minding the floating lines strung at Ōwata Cape to catch haraka fish.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Haraka tsuru o-□□□ tsukite sumau nami ni kegoto oboyuru iritori no ama
Where they fish for haraka, the □□□, amid the waves that surge as if in struggle, the fisherfolk who plunge in for their catch seem strange and fierce.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Isona tsumite nami kakerarete suginikeru wani no sumikeru ōiso no ne o
Gathering seaweed on the shore and splashed by the waves, I passed by the roots of the great rocks where, they say, the sharks lived.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yoshinoyama hana no chirinishi ko no moto ni tomeshi kokoro wa ware o matsuran
On Mount Yoshino, beneath the trees whose blossoms have fallen, the heart I left behind must now be waiting for me.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yoshinoyama takane no sakura sakisomeba kakaran mono ka hana no usugumo
When the cherries on the high peaks of Mount Yoshino first begin to bloom, will a thin cloud of blossoms hang over them like this?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hito wa mina yoshino no yama e irinumeri miyako no hana ni ware wa tomaran
Everyone, it seems, has gone into the mountains of Yoshino; I shall stay behind among the blossoms of the capital.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tazuneiru hito ni wa miseji yamazakura ware to o hana ni awan to omoeba
I will not show the mountain cherries to those who come searching deep into the hills, for I mean to meet the blossoms all by myself.
Sankashu - Saigyō