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- Sankashu
Toshi kurenu haru kubeshi to wa omoine ni masashiku miete kanau hatsuyume
The old year has ended. I fell asleep thinking that spring must surely come, and just as I had hoped, it appeared plainly in my dream: my first dream of the year has come true.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yama no ha no kasumu keshiki ni shiruki kana kesa yori ya sa wa haru no akebono
How plainly it shows in the haze along the mountain's rim! Then from this very morning, has it become the dawn of spring?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Haru tatsu to omoi mo aenu asaide ni itsushika kasumu Otowayama kana
Before I could truly feel that spring had come, I stepped out early in the morning, and there was Otowa Mountain, already veiled in haze.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tachikawaru haru o shire to mo misegao ni toshi o hedatsuru kasumi narikeri
As if to show me plainly that the season has changed and spring is here, the haze rises between the old year and the new, dividing them.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kado goto ni tatsuru komatsu ni kazararete yado chō yado ni haru wa kinikeri
Adorned with the young pines raised at every gate, spring has come to each and every house.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ne no hi shite tatetaru matsu ni uesoen chiyo kasanu beki toshi no shirushi ni
Having gone out for the Day of the Rat, I will plant the young pine beside the pine that stands at my gate, as a token of a year destined to pile up a thousand ages.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yamazato wa kasumiwatareru keshiki nite sora ni ya haru no tatsu o shiruran
In a mountain village, is it from the haze spread all across the sky that people learn spring has begun?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Itsushika to haru kinikeri to Tsu no kuni no Naniwa no ura o kasumi kometari
As if to announce that spring has come already, the haze has wrapped the whole of Naniwa Bay in the land of Tsu.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Wakite kyō Ōsakayama no kasumeru wa tachiokuretaru haru ya koyuran
Why is Mount Ōsaka so hazy today above all? Could it be that spring, having set out later than we did, is crossing over the mountain only now?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Haru shire to tani no hosomizu mori zo kuru iwama no kōri hima taenikeri
As if to say, know that spring has come, a thin stream comes trickling down the valley; the ice that sealed the rocks has cracked and broken apart.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kasumazu wa nani o ka haru to omowamashi mada yuki kienu Miyoshino no yama
Were it not for the haze, what could I take as a sign of spring here in the mountains of Yoshino, where the snow has not yet melted?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Moshio yaku ura no atari wa tachinokade keburi tachisou harugasumi kana
Along the bay where salt is burned from seaweed, the spring haze never drifts away, and the smoke of the salt fires rises to join it. How deep the spring haze lies!
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nami kosu to Futami no matsu no mietsuru wa kozue ni kakaru kasumi narikeri
The pines of Futami looked as though waves were washing over them, but it was only the haze clinging to their tops.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Haru goto ni nobe no komatsu o hiku hito wa ikura no chiyo o fu beki naruran
Those who pull up the young pines in the fields every spring: how many thousands of years must they be destined to live?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ne no hi suru hito ni kasumi wa sakidachite komatsugahara o tanabikitekeri
Ahead of the people coming out for the Day of the Rat, the haze had already risen and was trailing across the field of young pines.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ne no hi shi ni kasumi tanabiku nobe ni idete hatsuuguisu no koe o kikitsuru
Going out for the Day of the Rat to the meadow where the haze trailed low, I heard the first warbler of the year.
Sankashu - Saigyō