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## [Right Folio, Upper Section] — Songs of the Four Seasons: Flowers and Birds (continued)
**Fifth Month (May): Orange Blossoms (tachibana) & Water Rail (kuina)**
The hototogisu cries —
at the dwelling in the fifth month,
the orange blossoms at the eaves
never fail to perfume the air.
The water rail taps
at the cedar door —
in the pale light of dawn,
beneath the iris-hung eaves.
**Sixth Month (June): Wild Pink (tokonatsu/nadeshiko) & Cormorant (u)**
Even the sky of the water month (June),
which most would shun for its fierce sun,
is dear to me —
oh, the wild pink flowers!
On the short summer night,
the fishing fires rise
on the Uji River;
how quickly they pass —
the sky of the water month.
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## [Right Folio, Middle Section] — Long Poem Linking the Names of the Genji Chapters (continued)
The cypress pillar I shall not forget (*Makibashira*)
The fragrant plum branch dwelling (*Umegae*)
The trailing wisteria, its undersides revealed (*Fujiuraba*)
Why did I pluck those young herbs? (*Wakana*)
Forest oak and Nara oak leaves (*Kashiwagi*)
The transverse flute's captivating sound (*Yokobue*)
The bell-cricket's cry at my lodging, sad and weary (*Suzumushi*)
Dark evening mist, deep in autumn (*Yūgiri*)
Teaching of the Law, insight of the fisher-woman of the shore (*Minori*)
The phantasmal world, fleeting as can be (*Maboroshi*)
The moon hidden behind clouds in the dead of night (*Kumogakure*)
The fragrance of chrysanthemums — Prince Hyōbukyō (*Niou Miya*)
The shifting crimson plum, deep in colour (*Kōbai*)
Remembrance upon the bamboo river (*Takekawa*)
The Bridge Princess of eighty Uji rivers (*Hashihime*)
The parasitic tree of no original colour (*Yadorigi*)
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## [Right Folio, Lower Section]
How lonely — the sound of wind, waves, and the cry of a deer!
Led by the young lord Kogimi, who showed the way,
wandering, unsure where to go —
how alluring, the scent of Utsusemi's discarded robe!
"Who is there, tonight, late into the night,
tapping at the brushwood door?
Is it the sound of the ridge-wind coming down,
or the voice of flowers strung together?"
Like green willow threads twisted together, cry out, O warbler!
The hat that the warbler is said to sew
is a flower hat of plum branches.
**Songs of the Four Seasons**
In spring: plum blossoms and warblers, azaleas and wisteria, kerria roses,
the people of the capital adorning their hair with cherry blossoms — their hearts are captured by flowers.
In summer: deutzia, orange blossoms, iris, lotus, pink carnation —
when the wind blows, it is cool; their hearts are captured by the water.
In autumn: scarlet leaves, the cry of the deer, wildflowers and pine crickets,
wild geese crying at the evening moon — their hearts are captured by it all.
In winter: first frost, hail, sleet, and bitter winds,
the cold dawning sky, and snow — their hearts are captured by these things.
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## [Left Folio, Upper Section] — Songs of the Four Seasons: Flowers and Birds (continued)
**Seventh Month (July): Maiden Flower (ominaeshi) & Magpie (kasasagi)**
None but in autumn can meet the maiden flower —
what vows were laid in the sky of the Star Festival?
Over the long autumn night, with wings side by side they pledge their love —
the magpie's bridge, awaited throughout the autumn.
**Eighth Month (August): Deer, Bush Clover (hagi) & First Wild Geese (hatsukari)**
Autumn is at its height — in what colours
does the wind blow, so that
the clumps of bush clover in the wild fields
begin immediately to fade?
Gazing on, through the midst of autumn,
at the cedar door — the voice of the first wild geese,
so clear in how long I have waited.
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## [Left Folio, Middle Section] — Long Poem Linking the Genji Chapter Names (continued)
The traveller's shelter of the eastern cottage (*Azumaya*)
The floating boat whose later name is, too, unhappy (*Ukifune*)
The mayfly — a vow as fleeting as it (*Kagerō*)
One's own amusement in handwriting practice (*Tenarai*)
The dream's floating bridge, how transient it all was (*Yume no Ukihashi*)
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**The Three Twilight Poems (Sanseki no waka)**
**Saigyō Hōshi (Priest Saigyō)**
Even in one such as I,
with no feeling left —
how moving it is:
snipe rising from the marsh
in the autumn dusk.
**Jakuren Hōshi (Priest Jakuren)**
Loneliness —
it is not something
of any particular colour;
cryptomeria rise on the mountain
in the autumn dusk.
**Fujiwara no Teika**
Looking out as far as I can —
neither blossoms nor scarlet leaves:
only a rush-thatched hut
on the bay
in the autumn dusk.
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## [Left Folio, Lower Section]
**The Suma Melody**
"Suma" — that too is the name of a bay; "Akashi" — that too is the name of a bay.
Together gazing at the moon of Sarashina — come, let us spend the night in watching it!
The heart that was drawn to spring has, before one notices, shifted to autumn.
Within the fence of black and red — various beautiful flowers of noble bearing.
O cricket, what do you lament, crying out all through the night?
I too can barely endure my sorrows — my heart grows all the more disordered.
I shall not resent others for this — no, I shall not resent them —
yet how wretched, how sad, is the lot of one as insignificant as I.
How splendid — the new moon on the fifteenth night, unclouded!
Even people a thousand leagues away must surely be gazing and staying up through the night.
Deep in the night, the moon is clear, and the sound of a carriage can be heard —
the evening face (yūgao) of the crumbling house near the Eighth Avenue, as a guide.
**The Fan Melody**
The fan, layered with the sight of cherry blossoms,
with a misty moon painted upon it —
a heart that shifts and ripples in the water,
a figure that is somehow dear and moving.