いかにして 君いますらむ このごろの 雪気(ゆきげ)の風の 日々に寒きに
wondering
how you are
these days-
a wind foretelling snow
gets colder each day
事しあれば 事ありと言ひて 君は来ず 事しなきときは 音信(おとずれ)もなし
when you are busy,
you send me word
you cannot come;
when you are not busy,
not a word reaches me
そのかみを 思へば夢か 現(うつつ)かも 夜は時雨(しぐれ)の 雨を聞きつつ
when I think of things past,
I wonder if they were dreams
or if they were real:
tonight I listen
to the winter rain
*Randomly picked up from ;Ryokan: Selected Tanka Haiku
Publisher: Kokodo Japan (2000) ASIN: B00407Y7DK