Round Thirty-Four
Left
われのみやあはれとおもはんきりぎりすなくゆふぐれの山となでしこ
| ware nomi ya aware to omowan kirigirisu naku yūkage no yamato nadeshiko | Is it only I Who loves it so? Crickets Chirping in the evening shadows On the wild pinks. |
Monk Sosei
67[i]
Right
おほゐがは井せきのおとのなかりせばこのはをしけるわたりとやみん
| ōigawa iseki no oto no nakariseba ko no ha o shikeru watari o ya min | Upon the River Ōi If the weirs sounded Not, then At the leaves spread All around would we even look? |
Master of the Palace Repairs Office Akisue
68[ii]
[ii] KKS IV: 244: A poem from the Poetry Competition held by Her Majesty, the Dowager Empress, during the Reign of the Kanpyō emperor.
[iii] KYS III: 248/264: When he was in service at an imperial progress to Ōi.