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1. hana wa chiri / sono iro to naku / nagamureba / munashiki sora ni / harusame zo furu
--Princess Shikishi (Shokushi)
spring
The cherry petals gone,
There is no special color to my thoughts,
Yet as I gaze,
From the vacant sky there falls
The quiet sadness of spring rain.
--Miner, Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry, 118
With the blossoms gone,
I look for no special color
as I gaze afar
and then from the empty sky
spring rain begins to fall.
--Carter, Traditional Japanese Poetry, #344
3. koma tomete / sode uchiharau / kage mo nashi / sano no watari no / yuki no ygure
--Teika, SKKS 671
winter: snowy evening
There is no shelter
Where I can rest my weary horse
And brush my laden sleeves:
The Sano ford and its adjoining fields
Spread over with a twilight in the snow.
--Miner, Intro to Japanese Court Poetry, 115
No shelter in sight
to give my pony a rest
and brush off my sleeves-in the fields around Sano Ford
on a snowy evening
--Carter, Waiting for the Wind, #18; Traditional Japanese Poetry, #399