Inscriptions

Kippei:\r\nThe spring rains right into my arm-pillowed dreams\r\n\r\nYatsu:\r\nA night in spring--a dream of the real, sound of water\r\n\r\nTane:\r\nWhat a joy to learn right where I sit, of flowers and wine\r\n\r\nEi:\r\nStaying behind, afterwards I will tell the tale, in the bright-blooming morning after\r\n\r\nIo:\r\nIf only I could remain, just like this, in the springtime capital\r\n\r\n\r\nRikan:\r\nThe untimely, autumnal sound of the fulling block--these spring rains dripping in the night\r\n\r\n\r\nKeisha:\r\nBlossoms frame the raft, the raft in the rain.\r\n\r\nIchiko:\r\nMountain roses--the water flows down; the flowers will stay.\r\n\r\nDoran:\r\nSpring showers--fall right down in the whole day long!\r\n\r\n\r\nAH 2/20/2018\r\n\r\n\r\nAll nine poems here are haiku (made of the shortest 17 syllables)\r\n\r\nPoem 1: 橘平　Kippei\r\n手まくら能　夢に成介里　者類能雨\r\nTemakura no/ yume ni nari nkeri/ haru no ame\r\n\r\n(It has become a dream on my arm pillow, the spring rain)\r\n\r\nPoem 2: 洛東　や徒* Yatsu* from the eastern part of the capital (*Ota reads "su".)\r\n春濃夜や　う徒ゝ尓も夢　水能音\r\nHaru no yo ya/ utsutsu nimo yume/ mizu no oto\r\n\r\n(Spring evening, I dreamt half awake, the sound of water.)\r\n\r\nPoem 3: 浪花　太年　Tane from Naniwa (Osaka)\r\n座尓ならふ　こ楚嬉し介連　花と酒\r\nZa ni narau/ koso ureshi kere/ hana to sake\r\n\r\n(How delightful I can learn right at the real experience, on flowers and wine!)\r\n\r\nPoem 4: ゑい　Ei\r\nのこさ連て　人尓可多るや　花の阿佐\r\nNokosare te/ hiro ni kataru ya/ hana no asa\r\n\r\n(Asked to remain, tell others in the happy morning)\r\n\r\nPoem 5: いを　Iwo\r\n其侭尓　暮らし天見たし　京の春\r\nSono mama ni/ kurashite mitashi/ Kyou no haru\r\n\r\n(I wish I could live at the path, the spring in the Capital.)\r\n\r\nPoem 6: 璃寛　Rikan\r\n時那らぬ　砧や春能　夜仕須あ免\r\nToki naranu/ kinuta ya haru no/ yoshizu Ame\r\n\r\n(Unseasonal beating the cloth for washing in the spring, the night rain.)\r\n\r\nPoem 7: 慶舎　Keisha\r\n花尓筏　ゝ尓雨能　希しき可那\r\nHana ni ikada/ ikada ni ame no/ keshiki kakana\r\n\r\n(Blossoms seen from the raft; the raft in rain, what a view.)\r\n\r\nPoem 8: 市紅　Ichikō\r\n山吹や　水八な可れ天　残類可那\r\nYamabuki ya/ mizu wa nagare te/ nokoru kana\r\n\r\n(Japanese rose, the water flows out, but the flowers remain)\r\n\r\nPoem 9: 土卵　Doran\r\n一日盤　とつくりふ連よ　者類能雨\r\nIchinichi (hito to hi?) wa/ tokkuri fure yo/ haru no ame\r\n\r\n(Let it rain whole day, the spring rain.) \r\n\r\n\r\nReference for the Poem 1 and 9: Ota p. 160 (cat. No. 115). But revised\r\nsome by SO. English tentative. 2-12-2018; some transcription revised 2-18-18