Ki no Tsurayuki Poems

The Autumn mountains
Weave Autumn leaves
For offerings, so
Even I, living here,
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Alone for you Autumn
Has not come,
Maidenflowers,
So why do you colour
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A mountain cherry
Through the drifting mists
Faintly
Seen thus there is a lady
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The Autumn wind
Blew and since that day
On Otowa Mountain
The tips of the trees on the peak
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When the spring has come,
First flowering at my house
The plum blossoms:
In your thousandth year,
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On Mount Ogura's
Peak, he is wont to stand:
The belling stag
Has passed many an autumn;
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Buried in Winter,
How unexpected it is
Between the trees
To imagine flowers
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White snowflakes
Falling constantly-at such a time
In fair Yoshino
Amid the wild winds round the mountain's base
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Chrysanthemums in Autumn:
While they shine
I'll wear them in my hair,
For sooner than the flowers'
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With no eyes to see
At all, they've scattered
In the mountains' heart,
These Autumn leaves are night's
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