Round Two

Left

あし引の山どりのをのしだりをのながながし夜をひとりかもねん

ashihiki no yamadori no o no shidario no naganagashi yo o hitori kamo nemu

Leg-wearying The mountain pheasant’s tail Hangs down So long, so long, the night Must I sleep alone?

3[i]

Right

君が世はつきじとぞおもふかみかぜやみもすそ川のすまむかぎりは

kimi ga yo wa tsukiji to zo omou kamikaze ya mimosusogawa no sumamu kagiri wa

My Lord’s reign Shall never end, I feel! While beneath the divine winds The Mimosuso River[ii] Is clear!

4[iii]

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[i] SIS XIII: 778: Topic unknown. Also Ogura hyakunin isshu 3.

[ii] The Mimosuso River (mimosugawa 御裳濯川) is the name given to the Isuzu River (isuzugawa 五十鈴川) as it flows past the Grand Shrine of Ise, which is dedicated to the ancestral deity of the imperial house, Amaterasu ōmikami 天照大神.

[iii] GSIS VII: 450: Composed for the Palace Poetry Match in Shōryaku 2 [1078].

Round One

Left

竜田河もみぢばながるかみなびのみむろの山にしぐれふるらし

tatsutagawa momijiba nagaru kamunabi no mimuro no yama ni shigure fururashi

Along the river Tatsuta Flow scarlet leaves; Upon the divine Mountain dwellings of the gods A gentle rain looks to be falling.

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
1[i]

Right

ゆふさればかどたのいなばおとづれてあしのまろやにあきかぜぞ吹く

yū sareba kadota no inaba otozurete ashi no maroya ni akikaze zo fuku

When the evening comes The rice-seedling fronds before my door Sound out— Around this reed-roofed hut The autumn wind is blowing.

Middle Counsellor [Minamoto no] Tsunenobu
2[ii]

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[i] KKS V: 284 Listed as ‘Topic unknown’, ‘Anonymous’.

[ii] KYS III: 173/183 ‘Composed on the topic of “autumn wind at a hut in the fields”, when he had gone with various people to Lord Morokata’s residence at Unozu’.