Round One Hundred and Ten

Left

おほゐ川ゐせきの水のわくらばにけふはたのめしくれにやはあらぬ

ōigawa iseki no mizu no wakuraba ni kyō wa tanomeshi kure ni ya aranu

Upon the Ōi River At the weirs the waters Seethe—for once Today you had promised me The evening, had you not?

219[1]

Right

たれとしもしらぬ別のかなしきはまつらがおきをいづるふな人

tare to shimo shiranu wakare no kanashiki wa matsura ga oki o izuru funabito

Who that is I know not, but parting’s Sadness strikes On the offing at Matsura where He departs on his boat…

220[2]

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[1] Shinkokinshū XIII: 1194: Topic unknown.

[2] Shinkokinshū IX: 883: When Cloistered Prince Shukaku ordered him to compose a fifty poem sequence.