ఇప్పటికీ మంచు పూర్తిగా కరుగని
ఆ కొండమీది పల్లె
ఆ కోకిల కుహుకుహూలకు తప్ప
వసంతం అడుగుపెట్టిందని
ఎలా గ్రహించగలిగి ఉండేది?
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నకత్సుకాసా
9వ శతాబ్దం.
జపనీస్ కవి

కొండ మొదలుని
మరుగుపరుస్తున్న నదిమీది పొగమంచు
పైకి తేలిపోతుంటే
హేమంతప్రభావానికి ఆ కొండ
ఆకాసానికి వ్రేలాడుతున్నట్టు కనిపిస్తోంది.
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కొయొవారా ఫుకుయాబు
900-930
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Selections from Shūi Wakashū

If it were not for the voice

Of the Nightingale,

How would the mountain-village

Where the snow is still unmelted

Know the spring?

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Nakatsukasa

C.900

https://archive.org/details/anthologyofworld0000vand/page/46/mode/1up

Because river-fog

Hiding the mountain base

Has risen,

The autumn mountain looks

As though it hung in the sky.

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Kiyowara Fukuyabu

C 900 – 930

https://archive.org/details/anthologyofworld0000vand/page/47/mode/1up

(Translation: Arthur Waley)

The Shūi Wakashū (Collection of Gleanings), often abbreviated as Shūishū, is the third imperial anthology of waka from Heian period Japan. It was compiled by Emperor Kazan in about 1005. Its twenty volumes contain 1,351 poems. The details of its publication and compilation are unclear.

The Shūishū was an expansion of Fujiwara no Kintō‘s earlier anthology, the Shūishō (Selection of Gleanings), compiled between 996 and 999. Until the early nineteenth century, it was mistakenly believed that the Shūishō was a selection of the best poems from the Shūishū, and so the former was more highly regarded.

The Shūi Wakashū  is the first imperial anthology to include tan-renga  (short linked verse),  or waka composed by two poets – the earliest form of renga recorded.
(Courtesy: Wikipedia)