百人一首 英訳一覧

秋の田の かりほの庵の 苫をあらみ

Coarse the rush-mat roof
Sheltering the harvest-hut
Of the autumn rice-field;--
And my sleeves are growing wet
With the moisture dripping through.

春すぎて 夏来にけらし 白妙の

Spring, it seems, has passed,
And the summer come again;
For the silk-white robes,
So 'tis said, are spread to dry
On the "Mount of Heaven's Perfume."

あしびきの 山鳥の尾の しだり尾の

Ah! the foot-drawn trail
Of the mountain-pheasant's tail
Drooped like down-curved branch!--
Through this long, long-dragging night
Must I keep my couch alone?

田子の浦に うち出でて見れば 白妙の

When to Tago's coast
I the way have gone, and see
Perfect whiteness laid
On Mount Fuji's lofty peak
By the drift of falling snow.

奥山に 紅葉踏みわけ 鳴く鹿の

In the mountain depths,
Treading through the crimson leaves,
Cries the wandering stag.
When I hear the lonely cry,
Sad,--how sad--the autumn is!

かささぎの 渡せる橋に おく霜の

If the "Magpie Bridge"--
Bridge by flight of magpies spanned,--
White with frost I see:--
With a deep-laid frost made white:--
Late, I know, has grown the night.

天の原 ふりさけ見れば 春日なる

When I look abroad
O'er the wide-stretched "Plain of Heaven,"
Is the moon the same
That on Mount Mikasa rose,
In the land of Kasuga?

わが庵は 都のたつみ しかぞすむ

Lowly hut is mine
South-east from the capital:--
Thus I choose to dwell;--
And the world in which I live
Men have named a "Mount of Gloom."

花の色は うつりにけりな いたづらに

Color of the flower
Has already passed away
While on trivial things
Vainly I have set my gaze,
In my journey through the world.

これやこの 行くも帰るも 別れては

Truly, this is where
Travelers who go or come
Over parting ways,--
Friends or strangers,--all must meet;
'Tis the gate of "Meeting Hill."

わたの原 八十島かけて 漕ぎ出でぬと

O'er the wide, wide sea,
Towards its many distant isles,
Rowing I set forth.
This, to all the world proclaim,
O ye boats of fisher-folk!

天つ風 雲の通ひ路 吹きとぢよ

O ye Winds of Heaven!
In the paths among the clouds
Blow, and close the ways,
That we may these virgin forms
Yet a little while detain.

筑波嶺の 峰より落つる みなの川

From Tsukuba's peak,
Falling waters have become
Mina's still, full flow:
So my love has grown to be;
Like the river's quiet deeps.

陸奥の しのぶもぢずり 誰ゆゑに

Michinoku print
Of shinobu's tangled leaves!
For whose sake have I,
Like confused, begun to be?
Only yours! I can not change!

君がため 春の野に出でて 若菜つむ

It is for thy sake
That I seek the fields in spring,
Gathering green herbs,
While my garment's hanging sleeves
Are with falling snow beflecked.

立ち別れ いなばの山の 峰に生ふる

Though we parted be;
If on Mount Inaba's peak
I should hear the sound
Of the pine trees growing there,
Back at once I'll make my way.

ちはやぶる 神代もきかず 竜田川

I have never heard
That, e'en when the gods held sway
In the ancient days,
E'er was water bound with red
Such as here in Tatta's stream

住の江の 岸に寄る波 よるさへや

Lo! the gathered waves
On the shore of Sumi's bay!
E'en in gathered night,
When in dreams I go to thee,
I must shun the eyes of men.

難波潟 短き芦の ふしの間も

Even for a space
Short as joint of tiny reed
From Naniwa's marsh,
We must never meet again
In this life? This, do you ask?

わびぬれば 今はた同じ 難波なる

Now, in dire distress,
It is all the same to me!
So, then, let us meet
Even though it costs my life
In the Bay of Naniwa.

今来むと いひしばかりに 長月の

Just because she said,
"In a moment I will come,"
I've awaited her
E'en until the moon of dawn,
In the long month, hath appeared.

吹くからに 秋の草木の しをるれば

Since 'tis by its breath
Autumn's leaves of grass and trees
Riven are and waste,--
Men may to the mountain wind
Fitly given the name, "The Wild."

月見れば 千々にものこそ 悲しけれ

Gaze I at the moon,
Myriad things arise in thought,
And my thoughts are sad;--
Yet, 'tis not for me alone,
That the autumn time has come.

このたびは 幣も取りあへず 手向山

At the present time,
Since no offering I could bring,
See, Mount Tamuke!
Here are brocades of red leaves,
At the pleasure of the god.

名にし負はば 逢坂山の さねかづら

If thy name be true,
Trailing vine of "Meeting Hill,"
Is there not some way
Whereby, without ken of men,
I can draw thee to my side?

小倉山 峰の紅葉葉 心あらば

If the maple leaves
On the ridge of Ogura
Have the gift of mind,
They will longingly await
One more august pilgrimage.

みかの原 わきて流るる いづみ川

Over Mika's plain,
Gushing forth and flowing free,
Is Izumi's stream.
I know not if we have met:
Why, then, do I long for her?

山里は 冬ぞさびしさ まさりける

Winter loneliness
In a mountain hamlet grows
Only deeper, when
Guests are gone, and leaves and grass
Withered are;--so runs my thought.

心あてに 折らばや折らむ 初霜の

If it were my wish
White chrysanthemum to cull;--
Puzzled by the frost
Of the early autumn time,
I by chance might pluck the flower.

有明の つれなく見えし 別れより

Like the morning moon,
Cold, unpitying was my love.
Since that parting hour,
Nothing I dislike so much
As the breaking light of day.

朝ぼらけ 有明の月と 見るまでに

At the break of day,
Just as though the morning moon
Lightened the dim scene,
Yoshino's fair hamlet lay
In a haze of falling snow.

山川に 風のかけたる しがらみは

In a mountain stream,
Builded by the busy wind,
Is a wattled-barrier drawn.
Yet 'tis only maple leaves
Powerless to flow away.

ひさかたの 光のどけき 春の日に

In the cheerful light
Of the ever-shining Sun,
In the days of spring;
Why, with ceaseless, restless haste
Falls the cherry's new-blown bloom?

誰をかも 知る人にせむ 高砂の

Whom then are there now,
In my age (so far advanced)
I can hold as friends?
Even Takasago's pines
Are not friends of former days.

人はいさ 心も知らず ふるさとは

No! no! As for man,
How his heart is none can tell,
But the plum's sweet flower
In my birthplace, as of yore,
Still emits the same perfume.

夏の夜は まだ宵ながら 明けぬるを

In the summer night,
While the evening still seems here,
Lo! the dawn has come.
In what region of the clouds
Has the wandering moon found place?

白露に 風の吹きしく 秋の野は

In the autumn fields,
When the heedless wind blows by
O'er the pure-white dew,
How the myriad unstrung gems
Everywhere are scattered round!

忘らるる 身をば思はず 誓ひてし

Though forgotten now,
For myself I do not care:
He, by oath, was pledged;--
And his life, who is forsworn,
That is, ah! so pitiful.

浅茅生の 小野の篠原 しのぶれど

Bamboo-growing plain,
With a small-field bearing reeds!
Though I bear my lot,
Why is it too much to bear?
Why do I still love her so?

しのぶれど 色に出でにけり わが恋は

Though I would conceal,
In my face it yet appears,--
My fond, secret love:--
So much that he asks of me,
"Does not something trouble you?"

恋すてふ わが名はまだき 立ちにけり

Though, indeed, I love,
Yet, the rumor of my love
Had gone far and wide,
When no man, ere then, could know
That I had begun to love.

契りきな かたみに袖を しぼりつつ

Have we not been pledged
By the wringing of our sleeves,--
Each for each in turn,--
That o'er Sue's Mount of Pines
Ocean waves shall never pass?

逢ひ見ての のちの心に くらぶれば

Having met my love,
Afterwards my passion was,
When I measured it
With the feeling of the past,
As, if then, I had not loved.

逢ふことの 絶えてしなくは なかなかに

If a trysting time
There should never be at all,
I should not complain
For myself (oft left forlorn),
Or of her (in heartless mood).

あはれとも いふべき人は 思ほえで

Sure that there is none
Who will speak a pitying word,
I shall pass away.
Ah! my death shall only be
My own folly's (fitting end).

由良の門を 渡る舟人 かぢを絶え

Like a mariner
Sailing over Yura's strait
With his rudder gone,--
Whither, o'er the deep of love,
Lies the goal, I do not know.

八重むぐら しげれる宿の さびしきに

To the humble cot,
Overgrown with thick-leaved vines
In its loneliness,
Comes the dreary autumn time;--
And not even man is there.

風をいたみ 岩うつ波の おのれのみ

Like a driven wave,
Dashed by fierce winds on a rock,
So it is, alas!
Crushed and all alone am I;
Thinking over what has been.

御垣守 衛士のたく火の 夜は燃え

Like the warder's fires
At the Imperial gateway kept,--
Burning through the night,
Through the day in ashes dulled,--
Is the love aglow in me.

君がため 惜しからざりし 命さへ

For thy precious sake,
Once my (eager) life itself
Was not dear to me.
But 'tis now my heart's desire
It may long, long years endure.

かくとだに えやはいぶきの さしも草

That, 'tis as it is,
How can I make known to her?
So, she may n'er know
That the love I feel for her
Like Ibuki's moxa burns.

明けぬれば 暮るるものとは 知りながら

Though I know full well
That the night will come again
E'en when day has dawned,
Yet, in truth, I hate the sight
Of the morning's coming light.

嘆きつつ ひとり寝る夜の 明くる間は

Sighing all alone,
Through the long watch of the night,
Till the break of day:--
Can you realize at all
What a tedious thing it is?

忘れじの 行末までは かたければ

If "not to forget"
Will for him in future years
Be too difficult;--
It were well this very day
That my life, ah me! should close.

滝の音は 絶えて久しく なりぬれど

Though the waterfall
In its flow ceased long ago,
And its sound is stilled;
Yet, in name it ever flows,
And in fame may yet be heard.

あらざらむ この世のほかの 思ひ出に

Soon I cease to be;--
One fond memory I would keep
When beyond this world.
Is there, then, no way for me
Just once more to meet with thee?

めぐりあひて 見しやそれとも 分かぬ間に

Meeting in the way--,
While I can not clearly know
If 'tis friend or not;--
Lo! the midnight moon, ah me!
In a cloud has disappeared.

有馬山 猪名の笹原 風吹けば

If Mount Arima
Sends his rustling winds across
Ina's bamboo-plains;--
Well! in truth, 'tis as you say;
Yet how can I e'er forget?

やすらはで 寝なましものを さ夜ふけて

Better to have slept
Care-free, than to keep vain watch
Through the passing night,
Till I saw the lonely moon.
Traverse her descending path.

大江山 いく野の道の 遠ければ

As, by Oe's mount
And o'er Iku's plain, the way
Is so very far,--
I have not yet even seen
Ama-no-hashidate.

いにしへの 奈良の都の 八重桜

Eight-fold cherry flowers
That at Nara,--ancient seat
Of Our State,--have bloomed;--
In Our Nine-fold Palace court
Shed their sweet perfume today

夜をこめて 鳥のそらねは はかるとも

Though in middle night,
By the feigned crow of the cock,
Some may be deceived;--
Yet, at Ausaka's gate
This can never be achieved.

今はただ 思ひ絶えなむ とばかりを

Is there now no way,
But through others' lips, to say
These so fateful words,--
That, henceforth, my love for you
I must banish from my thoughts?

朝ぼらけ 宇治の川霧 たえだえに

Lo! at early dawn,
When the mists o'er Uji's stream
Slowly lift and clear,
And the net-stakes on the shoals,
Near and far away, appear!

恨みわび ほさぬ袖だに あるものを

Even when my sleeves,
Through my hate and misery,
Never once are dry,--
For such love my name decays:--
How deplorable my lot!

もろともに あはれと思へ 山桜

Let us, each for each
Pitying, hold tender thought,
Mountain-cherry flower!
Other than thee, lonely flower,
There is none I know as friend.

春の夜の 夢ばかりなる 手枕に

If, but through the dreams
Of a spring's short night, I'd rest
Pillowed on this arm,
And my name were blameless stained,
Hard, indeed, would be my fate.

心にも あらでうき世に ながらへば

If, against my wish,
In the world of sorrows still,
I for long should live;--
How then I would pine, alas!
For this moon of middle-night.

嵐吹く 三室の山の もみぢ葉は

By the wind-storm's blast,
From Mimuro's mountain slopes
Maples leaves are torn,
And as (rich) brocades, are wrought
On (blue) Tatta's (quiet) stream.

さびしさに 宿を立ち出でて ながむれば

In my loneliness
From my humble home gone forth,
When I looked around,
Everywhere it was the same;--
One lone, darkening autumn eve.

夕されば 門田の稲葉 おとづれて

When the evening comes,
From the rice leaves at my gate
Gentle knocks are heard;
And, into my round rush-hut,
Autumn's roaming breeze makes way.

音にきく たかしの浜の あだ波は

Well I know the fame
Of the fickle waves that beat
On Takashi's strand!
Should I e'er go near that shore
I should only wet my sleeves.

高砂の 尾の上の桜 咲きにけり

On that distant mount,
O'er the slope below the peak,
Cherries are in flower;--
May the mists of hither hills
Not arise to veil the scene.

憂かりける 人を初瀬の 山おろしよ

I did not make prayer
(At the shrine of Mercy's God),
That the unkind one
Should become as pitiless
As the storms of Hase's hills.

契りおきし させもが露を 命にて

Though your promise was
"Like the dew on moxa plant"
And, to me, was life;
Yet, alas! the year has passed
Even into autumn time.

わたの原 漕ぎ出でて見れば 久方の

O'er the wide sea plain,
As I row and look around,
It appears to me
That the white waves, far away,
Are the ever shining sky.

瀬を早み 岩にせかるる 滝川の

Though a swift stream be
By a rock met and restrained
In impetuous flow,
Yet, divided, it speeds on,
And at last unites again.

淡路島 かよふ千鳥の 鳴く声に

Guard of Suma's Gate,
From your sleep, how many nights
Have you waked at cries
Of the plaintive sanderlings,
Migrant from Awaji's isle?

秋風に たなびく雲の 絶え間より

See, how clear and bright
Is the moon-light finding ways
'Mong the riven clouds
That, with drifting autumn-wind,
Gracefully float o'er the sky!

長からむ 心も知らず 黒髪の

If it be for aye
That he wills our love should last?
Ah! I do not know!
And this morn my anxious thoughts,
Like my black hair, are confused.

ほととぎす 鳴きつる方を ながむれば

When I turned my look
Toward the place whence I had heard
Hototogisu,--
Lo! the only object there
Was the moon of early dawn.

思ひわび さても命は あるものを

Though in deep distress
(Through the cruel blow), my life
Still is left to me:--
But my tears I can not keep;
They can not my grief endure.

世の中よ 道こそなけれ 思ひ入る

Ah! within the world,
Way of flight I find nowhere.
I had thought to hide
In the mountains' farthest depths;
Yet e'en there the stag's cry sounds.

ながらへば またこのごろや しのばれむ

If I long should live,
Then, perchance, the present days
May be dear to me;--
Just as past time fraught with grief
Now comes fondly back in thought.

夜もすがら もの思ふころは 明けやらで

Now,-- as through the night
Longingly I pass the hours,
And the day's dawn lags,--
E'en my bedroom's crannied doors
Heartless are, indeed, to me.

嘆けとて 月やはものを 思はする

Is it then the moon
That has made me sad, as though
It had bade me grieve?
Lifting up my troubled face,--
Ah! the tears, the (mournful) tears!

村雨の 露もまだひぬ まきの葉に

Lo, an autumn eve!
See the deep vale's mists arise
Mong the fir-tree's leaves
That still hold the dripping wet
Of the (chill day's) sudden showers.

難波江の 芦のかりねの ひとよゆゑ

For but one night's sake,
Short as is a node of reed
Grown in Naniwa bay,
Must I, henceforth, long for him
With my whole heart, till life's close?

玉の緒よ 絶えなば絶えね ながらへば

Life! Thou string of gems!
If thou art to end, break now.
For, if yet I live,
All I do to hide (my love)
May at last grow weak (and fail).

見せばやな 雄島のあまの 袖だにも

Let me show him these!
E'en the fisherwomen's sleeves
On Ojima's shores,
Though wet through and wet again,
Do not change their dyer's hues.

きりぎりす 鳴くや霜夜の さむしろに

On a chilling mat,
Drawing close my folded quilt,
I must sleep alone,
While all through the frosty night
Sounds a cricket's (forlorn chirp).

わが袖は 潮干に見えぬ 沖の石の

Like a rock at sea,
E'en at ebb-tide hid from view,
Is my tear-drenched sleeve:--
Never for a moment dry,
And unknown in human ken.

世の中は 常にもがもな 渚こぐ

Would that this, our world,
Might be ever as it is!
What a lovely scene!
See that fisherwoman's boat,
Rope-drawn, rowed along the beach.

み吉野の 山の秋風 さ夜ふけて

From Mount Yoshino
Blows a chill, autumnal wind,
In the deepening night.
Cold the ancient hamlet is;--
Sounds of beating cloth I hear.

おほけなく うき世の民に おほふかな

Though I am not fit,
I have dared to shield the folk
Of this woeful world
With my black-dyed (sacred) sleeve:--
I, who live on Mount Hiei.

花さそふ 嵐の庭の 雪ならで

Not the snow of flowers,
That the hurrying wild-wind drags
Round the garden court,
Is it that here, withering, falls:--
That in truth is I, myself.

来ぬ人を まつほの浦の 夕なぎに

Like the salt sea-weed,
Burning in the evening calm,
On Matsuo's shore,
All my being is aglow,
Waiting one who does not come.

風そよぐ ならの小川の 夕暮れは

Lo! at Nara's brook
Evening comes, and rustling winds
Stir the oak-trees' leave;--
Not a sign of summer left
But the sacred bathing there.

人もをし 人も恨めし あぢきなく

For some men I grieve;--
Some men are hateful to me;--
And this wretched world
To me, weighted down with care,
Is a place of misery.

百敷や 古き軒端の しのぶにも

O Imperial House!
When I think of former days,
How I long for thee!
More than e'en the clinging vines
Hanging 'neath thine ancient eaves.